Reviews tagging 'Death'

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

112 reviews

allikay14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death

alice52's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Grief, Death, and Animal death

Minor: Cannibalism

heresyourletter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

As someone who’s struggled to transition from YA to adult fiction, I often struggle to find adult-oriented books I enjoy. 

But from the get-go, I was transfixed by Bad Cree. The fast-paced, unceasing tension; the creepy, unsettling dreams; the bonds between the main character and important women and non-binary people in her life — it was all an utter delight (which isn’t normally something I’d say about a horror book!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Grief, Vomit, Gore, and Cursing

Minor: Alcoholism and Cancer

Not as gory as many horror books, since the focus is more on dreams and the supernatural.

However, there are some intense scenes, including one where a character severs a crow’s head in a dream, one where a beating heart is exposed in a dream, and one where a supernatural creature autocannibalizes itself in real life. One character almost dies after rotting mushrooms begin to cover her

Death of the main character’s sister is the main focus of the story, and to a lesser extent, the death of the main character’s grandmother. Lots of mentions of cigarette smoking and brief mention of former alcohol addition. Brief mention of residential schools.

caseythereader's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

prairieraven's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

A book about the powerful elders and Aunties and community connection and the bonds between family and community. This is a beautiful and cryptically dark story about a Grief stricken young Créé Woman haunted by her dead sister, plagued by nightmares and followed by crows. She starts bringing objects from her dreams back to reality with her and she realizes she's in more trouble that she thought. The book is gripping, haunting and layered with connectivity with profound character growth.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Drug use, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

ipanzica's review

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The horror will captivate you and a family that will keep you glued to the book even more, hoping that everyone will stay safe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcoholism and Dementia

brotestantethic's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I wanted to like this one a lot more than I actually did. The positives: the characters are fleshed out well, and the central themes of sisterhood and cultural belonging are overwhelmingly present. 

Unfortunately, the strong themes are diminished by poor execution. The pacing is dreadful — there is a long chunk in the middle of preparing for a big fight that is anticlimactic, derivative, and most importantly only a couple pages long. There are also some pretty solid gore scenes, but not enough to classify this as horror. Overall, the plot might have been strong if the writing was not so disappointing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

deeroche's review

dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death

mikki_9's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Racism, Colonisation, Death, Addiction, and Alcohol

prologues_epilogues's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

5.0

This was such a lovely (and relatable) exploration of grief and the way it affects family relationships and daily life. Especially depending on how people grieve differently and how it causes strengths and weaknesses in personal relationships 🥲. I loved it. The supernatural and magical realism elements made the story so interesting and fun to read, and the different types of connection with reality through dreams was so enthralling. I liked how concise and consistent the writing style was while still being able to portray imagery and symbolism well. It was very fast paced. And it made me emotional in a way I haven't been while reading for a long few months.

The horror elements weren't too 'scary', but they did creep me out quite a bit reading this at night. The Wh*etigo spying on Tracy through the bloody rag freaked me out a bit, as well as the "decomposition(?)" of her body while she was alive and the quick regeneration of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Blood and Body horror

Minor: Animal death and Alcoholism