Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

4 reviews

sarahb919's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Loved the ghost world! Loved the stories rich landscapes and how the lands of the living and dead reflected each other 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Misogyny, Blood, Stalking, Drug use, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Sexism, Drug abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Classism, Death, Infidelity, Body horror, Murder, Child death, Colonisation, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Self harm, Death of parent, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Bullying

Minor: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, and Pregnancy

book_gremlin42's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Stalking

bookycnidaria's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

lynssss's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

4.0

Really cool atmospheric escapism. I thought it would get darker really. But it did later in another way. Very interesting plot and characters that all coincide week with each other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Medical trauma, Grief, Drug abuse, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, and Adult/minor relationship

MC's father is pretty addicted for a lot of the novel to opium. He gets better for some of it though. One of the main pairings is a relationship between a early to mid 30s man and a 17 yo.