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gracecrandall's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Classism, Violence, Terminal illness, Colonisation, Murder, Gore, Police brutality, Confinement, Blood, Abandonment, Body horror, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Transphobia, Death of parent, Racism, Deadnaming, Grief, and Deportation
jan_coco_day's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Classism, Confinement, and Death
Moderate: Dementia and Drug abuse
This book does NOT contain sex, sexualisation, or sexual violence.evelphysicist's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, and Body horror
Moderate: Slavery, Cannibalism, Deadnaming, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child death, Alcoholism, Grief, and Colonisation
kevin_the_intern's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Medical trauma, Cannibalism, Violence, and Addiction
songofthewolfy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Classism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Colonisation, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, and Cannibalism
Sims uses the listed content warnings to deliver a scathing critique of society. However, he does not shy away from depictions of mental illness, gore, and trauma. Please use discretion.bigofheartdumbofass's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, and Gore
Minor: Alcoholism, Transphobia, and Addiction
Most of the gore is at the end and in Jason's story.erakkorapu's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Classism, and Death
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Deadnaming
hyraeth's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
The structure worked well for me, with the prolog giving a hint of mystery and each subsequent chapter showing a different puzzle piece. The more you read the more you can start seeing the bigger picture.
Each character has their story and their issues intertwined with a horror 'trope', which kept the book interesting throughout as it wasn't 400 pages of the same thing over and over again.
Something to keep in mind if your memory sucks as much as mine and you're not reading everything in one go: there are a lot of characters, and even though they are mentioned in multiple chapters, sometimes I struggled to remember who exactly they were.
Graphic: Violence and Murder
Moderate: Cannibalism and Vomit
dogearedbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Addiction, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, and Grief
notwest94's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Cannibalism and Violence
Minor: Child abuse