Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

8 reviews

keen's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content, Violence, Gun violence, and Suicide

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

doomluz's review

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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Death, Self harm, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

sarah984's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Built nicely on the premise of the first novella while moving in a new direction. Unfortunately the middle section (about Molly in the psych ward) felt like a lot of wasted space in a story so short.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Death of parent, and Drug use

nerdinthelibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

would have liked this more than the first one if it wasn't for all the fatphobia :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Fatphobia and Suicide

soljovis's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

2.5

Weird amount of fatphobia in this?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Body horror

_fallinglight_'s review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Even though this one didn't really land with me as much and I feel it didn't have the same bang as TMOMS, I still enjoyed it and breezed through it and wished it was longer but kept the same high level intensity, intrigue, and weirdness. I liked TMOMS a little more but I liked how we got things explained here more and introduced to Tamara and her tamaras (that was my fav part but I'm also biased bc they share my name lol). Though, at the same time, having all the mystery spelled out kinda diminished the story somewhat. Like, personally, I liked it more when the experimentation and super secret spy stuff was ambiguous and had no definitive time place and location. Getting the short snippets of James's further deterioration and how the molly burst through him was so freaky. There are points where the medical background of the author jumps out, though, and the writing turns a little too jargon and even pretentious. It makes sense in story, but it kinda annoys me anyway. But I'll live with it. I did enjoy the little pop culture and art references. I learned a thing or two.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

plantbasedbride's review

challenging dark tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

A bloody, gory, and surprisingly touching follow up to the first novella, The Survival of Molly Southbourne subverts expectations and dares to ask rather than killing them “have you tried loving them?”

An exploration of identity and mental health, with a heavy dose of horror and sci-fi, a coming of age story with lots of self discovery and some bi/pan rep that made me feel all the things.

Beware some gross body horror and make sure to read the first book before jumping into the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gore, and Body horror

lilith89ibz's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Really cool sequel.

The development of the molly as an individual was really well done, and the discovery that they did not, in fact, have to kill each other, was devastating. Imagine who they could have all been if they’d discovered that early on.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, and Violence