Reviews - Old Wounds | The StoryGraph

472 reviews for:

Old Wounds

Logan-Ashley Kisner

4.11 AVERAGE

ritanyj's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

likeapresent's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Not higher because I didn't get an answer about whether criptids are transphobic or not.

er7167's review against another edition

3.25

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Erin is a saint

kimacus's review against another edition

4.0

The gender politics of being monster bait, and a very tender, honest, and raw story about being trans in a world created by and for cis-het folks. The characters were well rounded, and the story had a good pace. Lacking some subtlety, but I also would not necessarily tell the author to pull it back... Refreshing to have an in-your-face queer horror story. It felt very in line with something like Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. This story knew what it was, and had fun with it, while offering some trans catharsis and even a touch of trans healing.

lorriss's review

4.0

challenging dark mysterious tense

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

aritany's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-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: Complicated

laurelt's review against another edition

4.0

thank you to netgalley for the arc! ahhh i don't know why this review took me so long!! i really enjoyed this take on horror and gender & it was cool to see a story where they explicitly have a happy ending as opposed to a lot of queer horror that ends ambiguously. I can't lie i love an ambiguous ending but it is also SO important to have queer happy endings in darker books

they do overhype berkeley. berkeley is pretty boring

abido23's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark tense fast-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: Yes

Content Warnings

bibliovermis's review against another edition

4.0

Two trans kids heading for the legal safety of the coast become trapped in a small town where they immediately and predictively learn about the local monster that eats young women, but they're here to mess with the gender binary for man and beast alike. The horror beast is a combination otherworldly/eldritch creature and just big ol' scary beast monster in the woods, though of course the real horror is society—in macrocosm, the legal devolution and undervaluing of the safety and wellbeing of trans kids across the U.S., and in microcosm, this one, specific, terrifying small town where people think it's reasonable and maybe a little fun to sacrifice young women to their local cryptid. Maybe there are some allegories in there, but there's also just a lot of scary times in the woods—a very effective and satisfyingly scary YA horror novel.

alexomalley's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

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