Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

21 reviews

booksthatburn's review

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical trauma, Grief, Medical content, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Excrement, Bullying, Drug use, Vomit, and Colonisation

stephctopping's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

Beautiful writing, trippy time-stuff, original haunting, great ending. Emotional.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

sexualedward's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Classism, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Sexual content, Colonisation, Addiction, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, War, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Stalking, and Xenophobia

kace's review

dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Gore, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Animal death, Vomit, Violence, Death, Car accident, Blood, and Body horror

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

This is one of those books you need to read twice before you fully grasp it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism and Animal death

matthewclan's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying and Death of parent

badmom's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Murder, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment and Bullying

Minor: Alcoholism, Racism, Medical trauma, Genocide, and Forced institutionalization

laurareads87's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

“I was twelve the first time I saw my dead father cross from the kitchen doorway to the hall that led back to the utility room.”  What an opening sentence.  I was completely hooked from beginning to end. 
This short novella is haunting (in the most literal sense), atmospheric, and pervasively creepy.  Junior is a highly unreliable narrator who is attempting to figure out the presence of his deceased father, in full fancydance regalia, in a home many miles from anywhere his father had lived, all while protecting his younger brother Dino from bullying.  The horror here is not (only) ghostly or supernatural, but rooted in very real societal and familial dynamics as experienced by a twelve year old.  Profoundly disturbing; I was not at all prepared for the ending which, as other reviewers have mentioned, felt like a punch in the gut.  On the basis of Mapping the Interior I will absolutely seek out and read more of Stephen Graham Jones' work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Gore, Grief, Police brutality, and Child abuse

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism

lorie336's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

As I think about this more I believe the main character might have had visions while he slept walked, but I believe he was working through his grief, too. I think he was trying to prove to his dad that he could be the man of the house even though at times he wanted his dad back. 

I did love the stories and sayings of the Natives and felt horrible  how all of them were treated because they were Native especially when I think the sheriff deputy might be exploiting the mom. How the main character had to stick up for his brother on the bus.

I am still a little  baffled about the dogs, I won't spoil it, but those who have read it know what I am talking about. Did the main character  get possessed by his dad momentarily, did he do it under duress, just curious on how that happened.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, and Racism

Minor: Mental illness

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, and Murder