Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

15 reviews

opplecopter's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing and Death

Minor: Pregnancy and Abandonment

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

jaid5394's review against another edition

dark 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Pregnancy

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

blacksphinx'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I've never seen a horror novel hit the ground running like that. I also didn't know you could pull off a jumpscare in a non-visual medium. The unadorned prose and unique formatting allow the novel to move at a breakneck pace while chilling you to the bone. I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Stalking

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy