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eli_like_a_lie's review against another edition
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Incest, Pregnancy, Rape, Death of parent, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Drug use, and Abortion
Moderate: Mental illness and Drug abuse
laurenbookwitchbitch's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
A chilling, absorbing, mysterious haint of a novel set against the backdrop of a Tennessee mountain storm. Okay that's a bit of a florid description, but that's what comes to mind when I think of this story. Magnolia is working a dead-end job, she might be pregnant and she just lost her grandmother, Mama Brown who's wisdom and secrets know no bounds. When a strange man named Mr. Cotton shows up at her cash register one day he slips her his card, offering for her a modeling gig. A modeling gig at his funeral home. Skeptical but intrigued, Magnolia accepts. She soon realizes the true scope of Mr. Cotton's eccentricities and must reckon with the ghosts of her own past. Dark, emotional and utterly engrossing, Monica Brashears prose is every bit as sweet and enticing as the landscape she conjures. "House of Cotton," is a southern gothic tale that is one-part ghost story, one-part commentary on poverty, race and sex in a society that is as terrified of it's past as it is brash in its bigotry.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Abortion, Addiction, Racism, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment
emohan's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Very impactful book and story. Magnolias story is one that will stay with me. The book was not my cup of tea. The story was well thought out and the author writes very well.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol
Moderate: Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Body horror, Cursing, and Sexual content
Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, and Slavery
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