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moonchild_cos's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Death, Blood, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Misogyny, Murder, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Moderate: Incest, Genocide, Medical content, Sexism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Cannibalism, and Gun violence
Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Cursing, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
kcarney86's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Gore, Violence, Blood, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Grief, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Confinement, Rape, Classism, Death, Incest, Murder, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Torture, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content
Minor: Infertility, Suicide, Xenophobia, Miscarriage, and Cannibalism
discarded_dust_jacket's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
I have nothing bad to say about it. This was a decadent sort of unsettling that had me guessing right up to the very end. I had such a blast reading it.
Graphic: Incest, Murder, Death, Blood, Body horror, Sexual assault, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Racism, Colonisation, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Death of parent, Vomit, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Cannibalism, and Child death
strixy16's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Sexual violence, Classism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexism, Racism, Cannibalism, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Incest, Murder, Gaslighting, Gore, Blood, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Rape and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
lord_trashcan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Misogyny, Xenophobia, Mental illness, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Violence, Incest, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Sexual assault and Rape
semeyers's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
The premise drew me in: A neglected manor in the countryside in which lives the remaining members of a once wealthy and powerful mining family now battling to keep their power after tragedy. A socialite from the city who arrives at the manor at the behest of her cousin's husband and her own father after receiving a rambling and concerning letter from the cousin. The husband hopes a familiar face will draw her cousin out of her confusion. Her father hopes she will be able to get her cousin away from the family and into a psychiatric hospital closer to home. As she spends time in the household, it become apparent that not all is as it seems and something far more sinister is at work...
Now the issues:
- The characters are incredibly one sided. There is no backstory on the characters you are supposed to connect the most with - the MC, Noemí, and her cousin, Catalina. Catalina especially fell flat. With no background on her, it is hard to connect with and sympathize with her situation. She was supposed to be the driving emotion behind Noemí's actions, but it just felt forced. The members of the Doyle family somehow felt more fleshed out as you heard their backstories and more of the reasoning for their actions.
- The length. There are pages and pages and pages of Noemí just wandering around the mansion and the grounds, smoking, and not doing much of anything to forward the plot. I found myself thinking more than once "What was the point of including that paragraph??". A lot of it ended up feeling like filler.
- The shoehorned romance. <Spoiler>Noemí and Francis had absolutely 0 chemistry. It was so uncomfortable having them end up together. Keeping them as friends/confidants wouldn't have effected the storyline at all and would have worked bettter, imo.
- The ending was predictable and not at all unique.
I did like the twist
Graphic: Incest, Colonisation, Murder, and Suicide
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis
rtthalia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Body horror, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
eli_like_a_lie's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Classism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Body horror, Incest, and Racism
Moderate: Sexism, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Gun violence, and Child death
Minor: Death of parent and War
There is a lot descriptions of rot/mold/funguslmluft's review against another edition
Graphic: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Body horror
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Cannibalism and Classism
errie's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Body horror, Cannibalism, Incest, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexism