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readingwithjo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Miscarriage and Death of parent
Minor: Infidelity
cerilouisereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
mlem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual assault
clarabooksit's review against another edition
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
karelidz's review against another edition
There's nothing wrong with it, I actually think the story is pretty immersive. It's more of a me problem because knowing me and my brain, my brain will start making stories out of it and make me scared on it's own. Funny thing is, I was looking for something a bit spooky or october-y, but I can't really deal with ghosts stories for the sake of my sanity, so i'll just leave it there.
Moderate: Death and Grief
Minor: Child death, Gore, and Blood
Retellings, ghosts, twelve dancing princessesnarsere's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Death and Murder
Moderate: Death of parent
nagem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Sexual harassment
kaitlin444's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Suicide
piperclover's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
2.75
I'm not sure how to rate this. This book is not for me. I am not the demographic that should be reading this and I wish I knew that going into the book but unfortunately I didn't realize that until over 35% of the way through. Its definitely creepy, grotesque, and spooky alright. The last 25% really unravels and picks up speed but the first 75% are not boring by any means.
There's quite a few things that bothered me in this but a lot of that was just that this has a lot of genre/tropes I don't like so those gripes are excused by that- like Victorian era sexism. There are 3 things though that I did dislike regardless. (1) You never really find out how long ago most people died or how old some characters are which left me a little confused at the nature of certain relationships or details of the plot. (2) I also really dislike the resolution/the why this curse is happening. It's such a cheap and trite reason and I'm just so tired of everything boiling down to
All of that being said, I did enjoy large portions of this and I enjoyed even some of the horror aspects because I found them entertaining and intriguing. It's just that horror and Victorian era are some of my least favorite genres and mixed with the 3 issues above, I just don't think I can rate it very high. The narrator was amazing though
Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Body horror and Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
sammymantis's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Miscarriage, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury