Reviews tagging 'Grief'

House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

21 reviews

tree_star's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Abortion, Body horror, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

greenan26's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Abortion, Alcoholism, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Death, and Addiction

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, Stalking, Classism, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Cursing, Gaslighting, and Sexual assault

Minor: Fatphobia and Pedophilia

totore's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i enjoyed this book up until the very last chapter, where is takes a rather abrupt ending. It left the story with too many unresolved or unaddressed questions to be a fully satisfying read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion, Drug use, and Addiction

scottsmom's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Murder, Terminal illness, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Rape

emi_momo's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, Abortion, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Death, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Gore

Minor: Vomit, Addiction, Pregnancy, Rape, and Pedophilia

segreene111's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book was a trip and pretty disturbing at times. (Be sure to check trigger warnings.) Reminded me of a Southern Gothic Horror meets Get Out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Rape

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief, and Sexual assault

tyler_machotka's review

dark mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.25

Wow, when heading into this book I thought it was going to be a weird mystery for some reason. Boy was I wrong, but yet i'm glad it wasn't. I'm kind of lost for words with this book(for me is a good thing!). Very fast read though, and for her first novel I think she killed it! This book felt like a A24 movie and I love that feel, it was weird and strange but leaves you thinking. If you are looking for a book with a big plot this is not going to be for you, the book took on some social commentary for poor, Black, woman in the south. It almost feels a little like black mirror! Can't wait to see whats coming next for Monica Brashears!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Abortion, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Death

ecn's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

The technical writing was really beautiful and great overall. However, the story itself was majorly lacking. I will say, this is definitely not a book for me since I cannot stand unlikeable characters, but there wasn’t a single thing to grab onto to enjoy the story. 

The concept was intriguing but the shitty characters, bad sex, stupid decisions, and rushed ending take away from every good aspect. It felt like, between the last major event the  and the final 3 chapters, there was a HUGE missing chapter. I needed something to bridge that gap bc I genuinely do not think it was properly finished and I could not tell you *at all* how this story actually ended or what happened? Maybe if I were to physically read the book (I listened to the audio) it would have made more sense but I highly doubt it. It was just really lackluster :/

Also wtf was going on with the grandmother and her absolute NEED for the MC to see/talk with her aborted fetus??? I cannot tell if this is supposed to be pro-life or not and I have no idea why ANY aspect of that storyline needed to be included? Unless I missed something huge but????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Classism, Medical content, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Rape, Trafficking, Violence, Ableism, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Pregnancy, Addiction, and Abortion

sbcrra's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Pedophilia

martinj's review

dark emotional mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Blood, Grief, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Addiction and Sexual assault