Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

House of Cotton by Monica Brashears

13 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

randareads's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Vomit, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug use, Death, and Death of parent

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

rainbowarpaint's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death of parent, Stalking, Death, and Drug abuse

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

alexg52's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Death of parent, and Body horror

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

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

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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

megwilli's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape