Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

392 reviews

9inchnailzzz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

cdt96's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

nomonbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

I really loved this. It was brilliant and so tense throughout. The ability of the author to keep the intensity of each segment was really impressive. Everything felt heavy and weighted and I enjoyed it but also, ugh, intensely creepy. I enjoyed the recurring creepy motifs and all the discussion of the sea and the really astute observations about life - not all universal - but definitely all worth observing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia

dwhiting's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

If you love atmospheric eco-horror in the vein of Jeff Vandermeer, you will enjoy this. Leaves you with as many questions as answers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

alexijai98's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

More like literary than sci-fi. The author has a beautiful writing style but the plot wasn’t as interesting as I’d hoped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Sexual content

shaleen64's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

3.5

This book has some beautiful prose and the overall theme of grieving someone who is still physically present is well explored.

However, a lot of plot lines are left open and unexplored, this is not done in a thought provoking way rather just makes the story feel unfinished and therefore less enjoyable.

I can understand why some people really love this book, but it isn’t one I’d widely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content and Lesbophobia

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.75

More of a book to be felt than rationalized, it is a devastating example of what it means to grieve someone who is physically present, but not the same as before, and how trauma can affect a relationship for the worst. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Be aware that there is body mutations, isolation, aquatic horror, loneliness, struggling with a relationship, struggling with trauma, descent into madness, and harming your body in unusual ways.

fionamclary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Amidst the obvious horror of an unknown ocean that won't let you go and Coming Back Wrong flows an undercurrent of the hopeless horror of being unable to effectively communicate -- the terrible understanding that whoever is on the other end won't or can't cooperate, no matter how important the conversation may be. And deeper below that, the helpless horror of the fragility of living tissue in the face of everything: illness, water, pressure, time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Violence, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

agarocks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

fronk10's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

The only reason this has two stars is because the book finally got going in the last section. Otherwise this was ultimately very boring with next to no Cthulhu. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent