Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

49 reviews

purplatypus's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Alcohol, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Kidnapping, Death, and Sexual violence

jenny_d's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

When I first heard about this book, and read reviews that people were disappointed and bored by this book, I decided to go in with zero expectations and preconceptions. I'm very glad that I did. Don't go into this expecting a thriller. This is gothic lit.
I enjoyed the prose style. Not overwhelming, quite simple and to-the-point. It reminded me a lot of my first two years in university. Very surreal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual content

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I don't really understand this book... it reminds of this dark academia/fantasy/translated East European book I read, the plasma (if that's the right spelling) was just werid as. the pacing was a bit off and I felt like the short snippets of everything made it really hard to understand the characters. I was interested in the mental state of the characters likes ines or baby but mm, done pretty poorly. the ending was just like 'ah okay then'. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

damage's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content

mmefish's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

THAT ENDING??? I don’t know.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident and Death

vulturetime's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

Minor: Suicide

caseythereader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

 - CATHERINE HOUSE is modern gothic, dark academia deliciousness with a bit of a sci-fi twist.
- Ines is a bit of a disaster bi and I think many readers may not like her. Additionally, the plot takes its time getting going, but the imagery and atmosphere along the way was worth it for me.
- Also, so many people told me nothing happens in this book, which...did we read the same book? So much happens! There's just a lot of drunken partying inbetween plot points, which, as someone who attended a small, cultish college, feels accurate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Death, Excrement, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

reedsky's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Vomit

mikaylamurphy42's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content