Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

8 reviews

chaoticgobzy's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

maxamaris's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Many other reviews for this book are confusing to me and, I have to assume, written by non-horror movie lovers. This has very similar vibes to Insidious to me, and that's a big compliment. Actually quite scary throughout.

Sad ending I was dreading, but appropriate for the story and basically what the pacing was preparing us for.

I was really worried about the five-year-old perspective, but it worked for me!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

cyanide_latte's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.25

I'm writing this review for myself more than anyone else.
To my future self, if you find yourself looking up this book again out of a desire to give it a second chance: DO NOT. You hated this immensely. It has a number of tropes you despise and are incredibly sick of in horror, chief among them "everything happening because of a cheating spouse" and "death of a child".
Don't bother with it. You hated it, so do yourself a favor and don't waste your time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Infidelity

Moderate: Violence and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

ravenpuff's review

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

aleen_elizabeth's review

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

victoriaryan89's review

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Death

finnsnowbevi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child death and Drug use

50shadesofrae's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

2.0

Points for a couple good scares, but at least 25% of the latter half of the book didn’t progress the plot at all? Every adult character in the book was overly talkative, talked in circles about things no one in their right mind would talk to a child about, and was so unbearable that I found myself hoping they would die in the next supernatural incident. 

Brave to attempt a kid narrated horror story, but another unfortunate case of authors being bad at writing kids. Finished for the sake of finishing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Pregnancy