Reviews tagging 'Dementia'

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

42 reviews

le_mur's review

dark reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Dementia, Cannibalism, and Sexual harassment

tenderbench's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Dementia, and Sexual harassment

knit's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective slow-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

5.0

The art references really took me back to art school. Each one was perfectly curated for the themes of the book. 
At times the descriptions of Lydia’s relationships with her mother and with food where difficult but overall they were relatable. 
It’s interesting to read about a vampire who isn’t over powered. Lydia feels like a young woman who was way too sheltered growing up (think catholic school girl) and is just figuring out who she is and what she wants while also being non-human. It’s like seeing the vampire before they become wealthy, successful, and sexy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, and Car accident

radtastical's review against another edition

sad 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Blood, and Dementia

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

imaginaryempire's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Sexual assault, Blood, Dementia, and Murder

anxiousnachos's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

4.0

No plot, all vibes and I am in no way unhappy about that fact. This was a very good, very interesting lit fic vampire novel. As someone who enjoys and reads a lot of vampire fiction, I loved Claire Kohda’s take on the vampire mythology and the perspective she gave to the idea of vampirism/colonialism. Also very here for a complicated mother/daughter relationship and this one was excellent.

Content warnings: blood, animal death, eating disorder, sexual assault, sexual harassment, dementia, cancer, death of a parent, sex, infidelity, murder

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Eating disorder, and Blood

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

netthauser's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Dementia, and Sexual harassment

olivia_piepmeier's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

My experience of this was so interesting. It was a review copy, if that makes any difference in the reading. I don't think I would have picked it up if I didn't get it in a blind-date-with-a-book thing but when I started it, I felt immediately drawn to it. I can't really pinpoint why it hooked me so. It just felt like a mood. Often, vampire novels focus on the backstory of how they came to be in that world but this just focuses entirely on Lyd's experience over a few days. There are some flashbacks, but if you think about how you think over the course of a few days, yeah there are some flashbacks! It felt very millennial, reflective, modern, and sort of weird. I liked the connection the art world, perhaps this is something that drew me in. 

Honestly it almost deserves the category of "eating disorder" book. The sexual assault was not as bad as it could have been, but still very eerie. They delved into some more last minute as the book ended, which I felt was unnecessary. 

Overall, I'd recommend it as a weird contemporary London art world millennial vampire escape. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Dementia, and Stalking

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, and Colonisation

tamara_joy's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Blood, and Dementia

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Vomit, Stalking, and Murder

lilycollings's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

I really wanted to enjoy this more. It had so much promise but fell a bit flat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Dementia, and Cannibalism