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dixiecarroll's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Vomit, Gore, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, and Violence
paperknotbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Medical trauma, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcohol, Abandonment, Rape, Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
janaeq's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Motherthing has some great dark comedy. It blatantly addresses some triggering topics listed in the trigger section below.
If you like deranged protagonists with mental health issues and mommy trauma this is the book for you!!
Most of the book is from Abby’s perspective which truly makes things terrifying as you can tell that her dedication to putting Ralph, and Ms. Bondy on pedestals destroys her own sense of hypocrisy. In the end she cannot accept that the “family” she is creating and “fixes” is imperfect
Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Mental illness
Moderate: Rape, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Child abuse
Minor: Alcoholism
hapikohw's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Husband and wife with mommy issues, the house may or may not be haunted in the literal sense with the ghost of the man's mother after her suicide, but it most certainly is in the metaphorical sense.
Depression as a haunting and BPD, psychosis, obsession, worship, low self-worth, mother wounds and trauma as a possession - wow, that is a perfect way to parallel the horrors of a horror with the horrors of being in our reality. If Ghosts and demons and exorcists transferred to our real human being experiences they would most certainly be like this.
I enjoyed this through and through.
Graphic: Cannibalism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Alcohol, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual content
niamhszn's review against another edition
1.5
Graphic: Rape and Suicide
kelleykamanda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Note- has many dark parts, do not recommend for -see trigger warnings-
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, and Murder
Minor: Sexual assault and Rape
becca_thegrimreader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
I felt that this book started at an unusual time, we are meeting the characters immediately after Laura commits suicide. We don’t get to know the actual character of Laura, we learn about her through Abby. It didn’t make sense to me how we were supposed to understand their relationship when we didn’t get to witness it at all through the book. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the only weak plot point. The book was chaotic, and I wondered whether half of what was happening was real at all. The writing style is quirky, and uses an abundance of metaphors which was unnecessary.
The book is marketed as a horror, but really it is about Abby’s desperation of never having a mother and wanting to become the best mother she can be. This seems to be a book that many people are enjoying, it unfortunately was not for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and Atlantic Book for the copy of this book. My review is honest and unbiased.
Graphic: Gore, Suicide, and Sexual content
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Cannibalism