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leanneymu'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? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
A highly compelling, spine-chilling ghost story, that left me properly unnerved. Content notes for child death, downing and violence.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, and Child death
Minor: Misogyny and Racial slurs
echosong's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
The Woman In Black by Susan Hill is a good short story, with good writing that leaves you with an unresolved uneasy feeling much like the protagonist must feel.
Narrated from the perspective of a future Arthur Kipps, The Woman In Black, follows him as he writes down his experience from when he was a young lawyer looking from a promotion that changed his life forever and his hope that by writing it down, he will finally exorcise the ghost haunting him. Primarily set in a small village suffering from constant intense fogs, Arthur meets, from a distance, the titular Woman In Black, when he’s sent to get a recently deceased woman’s affairs in order, the story documents what happened to him on that week.
Character wise, there is not that much character development. Other than Arthur and his deteriorating state, all the other characters are static, with the reader finding out more about them, but none of them being developed further than their initial meeting.
While I enjoyed the writing style, which I feel lends itself to a narrator of the 1800s, it is difficult to get through the first part of the story. It’s only around chapter 6 that the ghost shenanigans really start and I was at my most interested.
Narrated from the perspective of a future Arthur Kipps, The Woman In Black, follows him as he writes down his experience from when he was a young lawyer looking from a promotion that changed his life forever and his hope that by writing it down, he will finally exorcise the ghost haunting him. Primarily set in a small village suffering from constant intense fogs, Arthur meets, from a distance, the titular Woman In Black, when he’s sent to get a recently deceased woman’s affairs in order, the story documents what happened to him on that week.
Character wise, there is not that much character development. Other than Arthur and his deteriorating state, all the other characters are static, with the reader finding out more about them, but none of them being developed further than their initial meeting.
While I enjoyed the writing style, which I feel lends itself to a narrator of the 1800s, it is difficult to get through the first part of the story. It’s only around chapter 6 that the ghost shenanigans really start and I was at my most interested.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Child death, and Murder
Minor: Misogyny
madarauchiha's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.5
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I was prepared to dnf at sixteen percent but Yah Yah Scholfield, noted up and coming Black horror author, has this on their tbr and ok. I'll press on. Mx Scholfield has excellent taste, surely its not that bad for a book written in the 1980s. I do extremely dislike them being a british lawyer. Embarrassing! Why would you choose to be british and a lawyer??
Slow paced. It does build and maintain tension very well.... Glad i stuck with it. just an hour read, kinda short but thats not a bad thing. said what it needed to in the exact amiunt. fantastic tension, horror, and prose.
minor pregnancy, misogyny, child death, anti black racism, alcohol use, classism, animal hunting,
medium child death,
major car accidents, child death, injuries, dogs,
I was prepared to dnf at sixteen percent but Yah Yah Scholfield, noted up and coming Black horror author, has this on their tbr and ok. I'll press on. Mx Scholfield has excellent taste, surely its not that bad for a book written in the 1980s. I do extremely dislike them being a british lawyer. Embarrassing! Why would you choose to be british and a lawyer??
Slow paced. It does build and maintain tension very well.... Glad i stuck with it. just an hour read, kinda short but thats not a bad thing. said what it needed to in the exact amiunt. fantastic tension, horror, and prose.
minor pregnancy, misogyny, child death, anti black racism, alcohol use, classism, animal hunting,
medium child death,
major car accidents, child death, injuries, dogs,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Child death, Racism, and Alcohol
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