Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman

11 reviews

catch__up's review

hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Death, Transphobia, Sexual content, Confinement, Car accident, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Medical content, Violence, Bullying, Alcohol, Infertility, Physical abuse, Deadnaming, and Infidelity

gabefish's review

dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Using vampirism and fandom as a lens to view queer, trans, and disabled bodies. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence, Chronic illness, Outing, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

Minor: Deadnaming and Transphobia

amy_reading_23's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

This book is an interesting one, and it definitley got me thinking. It doesn't have much of a plot but is more like a slice of life. Its about a trans vampire archivist falling in love with another queer person whilst also working through depression and questioning the liminality between life and death.

It reads more like experimental literary fiction than fantasy - the vampirism is used as a metaphor for chronic illness, living in a trans body, and being othered. If you are questioning your gender or identity then there are definitley bits of this books that can feel quite affirming. Overall it is quite a challenging book though, I wouldn't read it just for fun, but there were elements I liked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Chronic illness, Transphobia, Confinement, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Blood, Death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Car accident, Grief, and Mental illness

pobi's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

A very good book, but a bit too sad and existential (and romancey) for my taste tbh. I liked the way it played with form, and it's nice to read a book about trans masc people!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Transphobia, Sexual content, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, Hate crime, and Death

Minor: Infidelity, Dysphoria, and Addiction

audreyxine's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

2.0

I could never really get into this one. I liked the characters, but they seemed to lack chemistry to me. I would have liked to delve more into the themes of grief for some of the other characters. My biggest criticism is the Feet of Clay bits were very boring to me and distracted me from the plot. They seemed unnecessary and disrupted the flow of the story. I enjoyed the dark, mundane, dusty world that Fellman created but I would have liked to see more unfold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Transphobia

indeed_distract's review

funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Sexual content, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Transphobia, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, and Deadnaming

coyodie's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Cursing, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Outing, Transphobia, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Confinement

Minor: Infertility, Addiction, Deadnaming, Misogyny, and Violence

uranaishi's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Medical content, Outing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcohol and Car accident

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Genuine addition to the vampire canon. I really really liked reading this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Outing, Car accident, Blood, and Infidelity

yavin_iv's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Grief, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Blood, Death, Sexual content, and Outing

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility