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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

19 reviews

schildpad's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Excrement, Torture, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Medical content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Death, Gaslighting, Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Murder

meganzc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Torture, Addiction, Racial slurs, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

If you have any triggers, you'll probably find them in this book.

tay_b's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

No sé si realmente hay talento o si Melchor simplemente dio en el clavo con esta fórmula de violencia gráfica.

TW/CW: violencia sexual, violencia física, abuso psicológico, violencia contra infancias, violencia de género.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, and Abortion

valenblr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

2treads's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Melchor writes with a ferocity that propels both prose and reader through the visceral setting. Brilliantly brutal and with utter clarity, a story unfolds that centres women and the undiluted realities within which they exist.

At the heart of the narrative is the Witch, her death, her usefulness, and the scorn held for her by all who came to her door seeking her remedies. 

And as Melchor navigates the events leading up to it, she utilises each of her characters as a focal point for examining sexual abuse, poverty, drug use, despondency and desensitization, violence; all with a rawness that horrifies as well as arouses within the reader a sense of being in on the secrets, of understanding the town and its inhabitants.

The characters were also very interesting and were integral in maintaining the propulsive force of the prose: each with their own version, their selfishness, desires, trauma, shame and unreliability as revelation after revelation is revealed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Bullying

Minor: Violence, Body horror, and Police brutality

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Car accident, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Infertility

ronpayne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Hypnotic prose telling a horrible story. Please heed the content warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

kimiwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I can see why this book has gained so much acclaim. It is well written, gripping, and intense. This is not a happy story but one that focuses on the bad in peoples' lives and how that affects them, usually for the worse. The mystery is solved rather quickly however we also get to see the aftermath of this and how it further destroys those involved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Death, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Police brutality

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

This book focuses on the destructive nature of poverty and trauma in a small community. There is no redeeming the characters and what they do.

Brandio is extremely homophobic and transphobic despite also being attracted to a young men in his friend group. He uses derogatory terms for both groups. He also explicitly describes sexual interactions, including bestialities. On another note, Norma describes a pedophiliac relationship with her stepfather and explicitly describes her miscarriage after an attempted abortion.

This book is good but it is rough.

ross_f's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, and Violence