Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

96 reviews

sarahholliday's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This was my first Cassandra Khaw, but it will not be my last! Relentlessly dark and brutal, The Salt Grows Heavy gives reader just enough of a glimpse into a world filled with teeth and blood. Our main characters, whose names we never learn but who feel deeply textured and full of both pain and resilience (not to mention a desire for revenge), are utterly unique.

Khaw's writing won't be for everyone. 90% of the time I found it magical and got lost in the sentences dripping with the kind of words and turns of phrase you rarely see in literature anymore (much less horror stories). There were times where it all felt a bit overwritten, and I could've used a break where the language was a bit stripped down, but I think that's down to personal preference.

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Content Warnings

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

pullgodem's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Animal death, Grief, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

carolined314's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

Brutal, precise, haunting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Murder, Gore, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Grief, Medical content, Confinement, and Pregnancy

ellekiriel's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cannibalism, Gore, and Child death

Minor: Abandonment

kelleykamanda's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

Really fascinating idea but I thought the length did great disservice. I felt that maybe if it was longer with more character depth and lead in, the story would have been more captivating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Violence, Death, Child abuse, Child death, Medical content, and Medical trauma

msradiosilence's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gore, Violence, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Torture, and Toxic relationship

alchamp's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child death, and Murder

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

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Medical content, Blood, and Child abuse

Minor: Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Torture, and Domestic abuse

additional content warnings: dismemberment, evisceration, corpse mutilation, cult like society, being forced to eat one self’s body parts

whatcassiedid's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is a real fucked up Little Mermaid situation and I loved it

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Content Warnings

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