Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard

14 reviews

el_wheel's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Blood, Gore, Child death, Death, and Homophobia

haleybre's review

dark hopeful mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, Grief, Transphobia, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Lesbophobia, and Body horror

katvanwebb's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Unsettling collection of short stories. Creepy. Graphic depictions of death/bodily injury, including to children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Body horror

toonyballoony's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Devoured in one sitting. Abby Howard has become a master of the macabre!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child death and Religious bigotry

katherine_kelley's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.5

Listen… the art was well done and the horror was pretty creepy, but everything was just very face-value. Plot: underdeveloped. Characters: underdeveloped. I can’t say it was unpleasant to read, but it just is more of an art book than a collection of short stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual assault

ccatsol's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death, and Gore

Minor: Homophobia

aardwyrm's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Effectively spooky, with an unexpected turn to each story that kept the eerie edge sharp throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Gore, Grief, Violence, Death, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Bullying, Child death, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content

ninanesseth's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Child death

saltylane's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

Suuuuper creepy and unsettling, which is exactly what you want in a horror story! Multiple tales, all pleasantly ghastly, making this a hard book to put down!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Homophobia

betweentheshelves's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Ooo this was masterfully creepy! I think the art style really suited each of the short stories included in here. This kind of story isn't usually my cup of tea, but I did really enjoy this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent