Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

39 reviews

achay91's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

gawdz0rz's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racism, Animal death, and Child death

autumnadair13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The ending is definitely with another book but dang it's still. Really really good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Kidnapping, Animal death, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

meganpbell's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This is a downright disturbing and deliciously atmospheric work of folkhorror, from hoarder’s house to haunted woods, narrated with unexpected humor by a woman who just wants to keep her dumb dog safe. What I didn’t know until the very end is that this book is inspired by a 1904 classic horror short story by Arthur Machen, and while you can definitely enjoy this book without knowing the story, I felt like I was missing something once I knew!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

Minor: Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Child death, Infertility, Racism, Death of parent, and Dementia

aidareads's review against another edition

dark funny 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

a solid 4 stars because it wasn’t bad, but i think i wanted to be creeped out and i wasn’t for the most part. still, it has very engaging writing style, and i loved foxy’s characterization. and i adored bongo. there was a lot of comic relief and fantasy tropes, so maybe that’s why it wasn’t extremely creepy. i still liked it tho! definitely an upgrade from the last books i’ve read lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Dementia

Moderate: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Racism

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Animal death, Racism, and Rape

traa's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Car accident

podanotherjessi's review against another edition

dark 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? No

4.0

I completely bounced off the writing style of this when I tried reading it physically, but it was well suited to audiobook. It's very much a story being told, a little direct-to-reader, and that just works better for me with a narrator.
Beyond this, the premise is not dissimilar from a lot of Kingfisher's other horror. A 30-something woman goes through a breakup (that has almost no relevance to the story) and is drawn back to a place from her childhood and quickly learns spooky things are happening. Of those (A House with Good Bones, and The Hollow Places), this one is my favorite. The world and mysterious elements are just so much more fleshed out, and I love a creepy woods.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

milanaaaah's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

If you like books like annihilation, you the scares are similar but the story is more confined to the characters in a silly and lovable way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Death

ilaxaria's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Dementia, Death, Alcohol, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts