Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

184 reviews

valkyrisms's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

this fucked

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Domestic abuse

vessel's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A very cool book with a lot of interesting stuff to say. Ultimately, the writing style wasn't for me, and I didn't completely understand what it was going for. A lot to think about, though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape

clown_the_basking_shark's review

challenging dark 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

5.0

THIS WAS GUTWRECHING, THE ENDING, THE ENDING, THE ENDING!

Regular Review Style:

1. First time trying an audio book, it was good, I liked the narration

2. The plauge doctor was AMAZING

3. I CANT KEEP GOING! THERE'S NOTHING I CAN SAY THAT ISN'T A SPOLIER

Of my daughters, suckling the marrow from their father's kingdom, growing stronger by the hour. Like everything else, they are only meat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

caitlinastrid's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

sussaann's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

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

5.0

I've never loved a book as much as I love this book. It's remarkable and heartbreaking, every time I re-read it I find a new line that makes it hurt better, this time it was "Better I be reduced to miscreant daydreams of the ocean than be alive without them." Khaw has a unique talent for making body horror beautiful and disgusting. Am I throwing up because it's so graphic or because I'm crying so hard? The world may never know...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

swamphag666's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ashlynncj7's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

adragoninspace's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

troubleintandem's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This book has some beautiful language and vivid imagery, most of it about cold snow, blood, and vivisection. A kind of strange fascinating intersection of Madeline Miller's Cersei and Phil Tippett's Mad God.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

pinkjunimos's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail