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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

130 reviews

moss_martii's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Abortion, Police brutality, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexism, Drug use, Incest, Kidnapping, Rape, and Animal cruelty

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

ratthew86's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Child abuse, Racism, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Homophobia, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Blood, Outing, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Misogyny, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Torture, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual content, Rape, and Police brutality

ruberiffic's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Homophobia, Rape, Transphobia, and Pedophilia

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

enairabutcher's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.5

Intentionally claustrophobic, Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season eliminates paragraph breaks, waxes poetic in near unending sentences, and limits chapters to match the themes of this dark, haunting, and visceral novel. As readers, our perspective on the death of The Witch, who she is, how she came to die, unfold chapter by chapter as we get to know the residents and passersby of a small Mexican village, where poverty, abuse, and addiction plague the people, many of whom care little to improve their situations, grim and depraved as they are, fixated on gossip, rumours that propel the narrative, in its limited view, forward toward something, nay, nothing, that can be considered closure. Such are the lives explored in these pages, fleeting, ending in lightless tunnels, unable to see a path away from the rough hand they were dealt, throwing blame at those who cross them, deserved or not; a metaphor for the cycle of abuse, of trauma, of poverty, of addiction, of depravity, of hunger — all the evil that humanity faces but cannot name, not without pause or reflection, as offered in this violent fiction. The nameless Girl who grows up alone, abandoned, only to find communion with those who care not for her wellbeing, who taunt and tatter her broken soul, the families shaped by prostitution and lies, investing in gods and tinctures and remedies that do little to lay bare the truth, the child who escapes one hell to find another, a mother too soon, unable to see the truth of her relationships just as those around her are blind to her suffering. This is how Hurricane Season gathers its cast of characters, leaving you, the reader, to consider how hope might find its way through all this darkness, replete with profanity and sex, dehumanizing, inhumane, leaving you shaken, enraged, and, if you are anything like me, questioning — of why and how and again why and how the world can turn a blind eye. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Cursing, Rape, Sexism, Abandonment, Addiction, and Death

mandacpreads's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Transphobia, and Sexual violence

grimlo4's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Pedophilia

mlovesbooks's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Rape, Sexism, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Trafficking

aislinn95's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia and Racism

Minor: Suicide and Fatphobia