Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

24 reviews

farleighelse's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Meh, depraved. Multiple narratives. Murder. Need to read again. Human horror. Long. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Drug use, Homophobia, Child death, Drug abuse, Transphobia, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Violence, Miscarriage, Abortion, and Addiction

hughesie's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Violence, and Rape

Moderate: Abortion, Murder, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Infidelity, Addiction, Car accident, Outing, Police brutality, and Child death

mmefish's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I can’t rate this book higher than 4 stars because of how gross, vile, revolting, vulgar and disgustingly detailed it is. But I applaud the author for their artistic abilities.

Additional CW: graphic zoophilia.

P.S.: I expected a different kind of horror…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Murder, Torture, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Transphobia, Hate crime, Incest, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Minor: Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Graphic: Zoophilia

bookishaddictions's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

1.0

Okay, so I absolutely HATED this one. I gave it an honest try, as I saw it had really good reviews on Goodreads. I found the book disturbingly disgusting. There are books that are weird yet good…. This was not it. This included everything considered taboo; it covered prostitution, drugs, bestiality, pedophilia, abortion, and much more. I can handle the vulgar language (do you know how many times they said “c*ck?), but this book gets downright foul. I wasn’t impressed by the writing style, and the story just seemed pointless to me. I did not find myself satisfied by the the whodunnit answers either, as it didn’t really come off as much of a mystery. If you have been waiting to read this one, I recommend just skipping it unless you are going to try it in the original language 🚫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Death, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Abortion, and Physical abuse

chicanodracula's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Fantastic Writing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence

odetojersey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

SOOO GOOD. So geniunely frightening and grotesque in the best way. Proceed with caution though and look into content warnings, as I had to take multiple breaks throughout my reading. I felt like I needed to wash out my brain with soap

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

karla_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Homophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Hate crime

Minor: Child death

ktlimes's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

i am lowkey terrified of this book but in a good way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

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

eleanorjmca's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This is a savage, very bleak book about cycles of violence and pain, centred on one small community; ultimately it is about powerless people, extremely poor, controlled by drugs and gangs and money problems and superstitions and fear above all, who accrue tiny amounts of power to themselves by means of violence against other powerless people. Men, in particular, are the primary aggressors, with women the primary victims, but there is always a sense in which the greater aggressor is off screen, elsewhere, maybe at the Oil Company or even far away in another country. It is a loveless book, full of people desperately looking for affection and approval and vindication, as well as sexual pleasure, but unable to engage with anything in a non-violent way; the close relationship between love and violence runs through the whole book, culminating in the final scene when

the dead bodies receive the most genuinely affectionate words in the book from the gravedigger, having finally "escaped" from the world of suffering

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This book's best quality is the author's incredible use of language, and the translator's skill in rendering it. The dense text (no paragraph breaks) and eternal run on sentences were off-putting at first, but soon made the book difficult to put down! The technique of going on a journey in each chapter through a particular character's train of thought, memories etc is very compelling. I also loved how the picture of what had happened on the night of the crime, and what had caused it, gradually came into focus through the perspectives of different characters. I have only ust finished this book and I want to go back and read it again! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Rape, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Ableism, Excrement, Hate crime, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Transphobia

Extremely lengthy and detailed descriptions of an adult/child sexual relationship; also bestiality, which there is no content warning option for.