Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

22 reviews

itsheyfay's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent

muse21's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Child death, and Domestic abuse

spadedigsbutts's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

Just a very raw book in general! Lots of poetic language and it really just dives into the story right away. I didn't quite get a grasp of the personalities of the main two characters, but it was absolutely fine for what it is. 

[Will add more later!]

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, Vomit, Confinement, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, and Pregnancy

wrensreadingroom's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Kidnapping, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Child death, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Medical trauma

leanne_miron's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Genocide and Misogyny

jayjm94's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It certainly has its moments and clearly the author is talented. However, I’ve read many many challenging books in my day, ranging from classics to modern books that are heavily stylized or just extremely long and this book still takes the cake for most difficult to follow as far as just visualizing what is literally happening moment by moment. At times it’s beautifully and painfully written, however editing would have been amazing. Any amount of subtlety would’ve been amazing. Any amount of commitment to the reader understanding exactly what’s unfolding before them would’ve been amazing. I understood the plot and sequence events, but got very frequently bogged down by metaphor after flowery metaphor. It’s not an accessible read. I enjoyed the take on mermaids for sure, but the ending was not earned in the slightest. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Misogyny

axel_p's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-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? No

3.5

I would have loved if this where longer.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pregnancy, War, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Vomit, Child death, and Gore

librarymouse's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-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

The gore and viscera of this novella sheaths a love that is tender in that it is beautiful, and tender in that it is raw to touch.

the narrator growing to look more human in the epilogue harkens back to the miss the reference of the falsehood earlier on about a mermaid's ability to become human if they love a prince deeply enough. The plague doctor's empathy becomes the narrator's upon their eviceration and subsequent death. The space and tenderness the plague doctor holds for the children being mutilated by the surgeons who killed and revived them over and over again is transmuted in their death to make the desire to preserve life something tangible to the narrator.

I enjoyed the way readers were dropped into the story after the narrator had taken a sort of revenge, and it's figuring out where to set herself in the world after, and I enjoy that some things are left unexplained.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Vomit, Violence, Animal death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Genocide, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Murder

jessereadsthings's review

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

Super interesting, but wish it was a bit longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Misogyny, Gore, Medical trauma, Torture, Body horror, Child abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape

mirificmoxie's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny