Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

9 reviews

shesflippinpages's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

detective_dipstick's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Alcohol

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Violence, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Blood, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

hauntedantiqueshop's review

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.0

1. Who the FUCK talks to their 8 year old kid like that? They’re straight up monologuing AT this kid.
2. Their kid is the ONLY kid at this random party her parents are throwing, where the adults are all openly drinking and half asses sneaking smoking weed and she’s the evening entertainment as a little dancer??? what kind of Shirley Temple shit is this. 🤨
3. What kid EXCLUSIVELY calls their father daddo? That isn’t a thing.
4. Of course they made the mom a whore that was annoying, it’s like the author wanted readers to WANT Other Mommy to kill her. 
5. Coraline did the wholeOther Parent thing so much better.
6. Bela is an idiot. “They lied to me about something I was not developmentally able to comprehend so I can lie to them now and just let a demon inside me, that’s the same thing” GIRL NO
7. It was SO repetitive.
8. The idea of ruining innocence with parental infidelity and paternity to make someone unappealing to a demon (?) is so stupid to me. Those things feed on BAD feelings and they literally added fuel to that fire. Idiots.

All that being said, I did kinda like it tbh. I had a good time, got through it fast. It definitely could have been worse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Murder and Pregnancy

Not a lot really happens but uh. Ghost/demon? Trickery??

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

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

dblue236's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I can't resist picking up a new book from this author every time I see one. This one took a bit of getting used to due to the format of it, but there was a helpful author's note at the beginning of the book that makes that less of a challenge. I loved watching the story unfold, though I can't say I wasn't at least a little bit let down by the ending. Overall, though, this was a great creepy read that will leave me thinking about it for some time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Infidelity

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Grief, and Alcohol

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

ceredonia's review

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, and Grief

Minor: Death

takecoverbooks's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Such a solid horror story. Check it out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Grief