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danajoy's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Confinement
Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror
sinoclock's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Kidnapping and Confinement
Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Body horror
Minor: Suicide, Stalking, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Excrement
yescinder's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
<Spoiler>The Beast remains at Beast at the end -- Bryony remains human. Honestly, I shouldn't have been surprised because there was technically plant porn alluded to but I think I just choose to ignore it. This was a cute story but I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about the bestiality of it all.</Spoiler>
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Body horror
Minor: Suicide and Torture
alienor's review
4.5
Graphic: Confinement, Blood, and Body horror
Moderate: Suicide, Violence, and Physical abuse
Minor: Death, Sexual violence, and Death of parent
brontesauruses's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, and Blood
Minor: Vomit, Death of parent, and Sexual violence
This was a really cool retelling inspired by Robin McKinley's own excellent retelling (well, one of her retellings), Rose Daughter. It definitely stands by itself, though, with its banter and uh Horrors. It would not be Kingfisher without the Horrors, but boy they sure do ramp up quickly towards the end. Like thesynniestar's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
bryony and roses is a retelling of beauty and the beast, but with added mystery, horror, and a house obsessed with pink.
Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Violence
notthatlibrarian's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Confinement, Body horror, and Suicide
rhymeswithnova's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Stalking, and Vomit
Moderate: Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent and Excrement
marieketron's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The pacing of the story is also exactly right, and while there is a short montage scene of the two spending time together, we get plenty detailed scenes to fully buy into the sweet romance between the two. I was happy that this is also a relatively feminist tale in that the heroine is explicitly not a virgin and refers to masturbation, even if there is no on page sexual action. Loved the sister side character of Holly as well.
I might have rated the story slightly higher if it weren't for the narrator of the audiobook I listened to, whose inflection at the end of every sentence was mildly grating and I would have to get swept up by the story before I could tune that out. It's a mark in favour of the story that it was indeed able to sweep me along so well that I stopped noticing a voice quirk that might otherwise have meant I wouldn't finish the book in question.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Vomit
Minor: Death of parent