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cambam999's review
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Grief, Death, and Child death
ashielovestoread's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Body horror, Pregnancy, Death, Alcoholism, Grief, and Child death
Minor: Blood
charlizardbookboi17's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Grief
_fallinglight_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicide, and Vomit
howlinglibraries's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Blanky. Such an innocuous name for something that had now cemented itself as the locus of my grief and horror and rage.
Kealan is such a master of this gut-wrenching, tragic sort of horror tale that I'd been putting Blanky off for a while despite how badly I wanted to read it. Kealan is one of my favorite authors and I'd heard many rave reviews about this novella, but as a mother of a young child, child loss has been my only trigger in recent years and I worried that picking this one up might be a mistake. As soon as I gratefully realized over the past few months that my mental health treatments have worked enough that I can stomach stories about child loss, I immediately knew it was time to read Blanky, and I'm so glad that I did.
Blanky follows a father who's recently lost his infant daughter Robin, and the sheer grief and desolation that Stephen and his estranged wife are going through is palpable. Neither of them are certain they can go on or if they should even try, and who could blame them? The grief quickly segues into terror as bizarre things start happening upon the reappearance of Robin's lost 'Blanky', and from then on, it was an eerie, twisted little fever dream as the story unraveled. Some of the imagery in this novella was truly unsettling, and I'm certain I'll never look at an antique baby blanket the same way again.
Graphic: Grief and Death
Moderate: Child death
connorjdaley's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief
robinudell's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Child death
sarabook's review against another edition
Graphic: Child death
madarauchiha's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
Well. That was a story. It was ok. Kinda a B or C movie type of a plot. The plot twist was silly to me but ok sure, nothing is original.
major alcoholism, blood, body horror, child death, excrement, gore, grief, mental illness, murder, police, unsanitary
medium sexual content, vomit,
minor confinement, ableist c slur, alcoholism, pregnancy, vomit,
Graphic: Child death, Gore, Body horror, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Excrement, Grief, and Mental illness
Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit
Minor: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Ableism, Confinement, and Vomit
ksm'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? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Murder and Suicide
Minor: Grief