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isarza's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Mis cuentos favoritos fueron "la casa de Adela", "nada de carne sobre nosotras", "bajo el agua negra". "Bajo el agua negra" me recordó a Lovecraft y me gustó esta referencia.
Quisiera leer "los peligros de fumar en la cama" que dicen que es aún mejor.
Odié el final de "el patio del vecino" Trigger warning por tener escenas de maltrato animal.
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Blood, and Body horror
Minor: Rape, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Torture, Excrement, Gore, Violence, Death, and Eating disorder
lynxpardinus's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Child death, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Child abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, Rape, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Murder, and Self harm
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Racism, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Vomit, Stalking, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Addiction, Religious bigotry, Torture, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, and War
emmaopaline's review against another edition
- 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? N/A
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Blood, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Sexual violence, Child death, and Body shaming
Moderate: Abandonment and Animal cruelty
manuelac's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry
mackenzi's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
She tells me a story about each photo, a story she heard from a friend or a grandparent. Some of the names are the same from photograph to photograph, and I wonder if they're ever the same people displaced a little by time, still finding their way into stranger's photos just to be lost again. The stories are all a little sad, melancholic for their world-weariness, and all are frightening. Some scare me because ghosts scare me like they scare a child, some are scary because the world is just that way and I feel helpless about it.
Each story ends, abruptly, her voice fading into silence as she sets the photo on the table, making a little pile that she's already gone through. I ask what happened to the person, what happened next, and she shrugs, she doesn't know. So each story lingers, because my mind craves completion, resolution- but if you've ever stumbled onto old photos in an antique store, you know there's no resolution. You can stare at the faces in the pictures all day and never know who they really were. And each story haunts because there seems like a world of things in that story, and I want to sift through each one to try and find the meaning, the lesson, the history, the knowledge of someone who might have lived it for real.
But they're still just photographs and eventually she runs out of them, and she's putting them back in the box and she's taking the box away again, and I'm left with a handful of memories that feel startlingly real.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Child death
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Sexual assault, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Sexism
MOST of these are brief mentions or descriptions. However, if it is brought up in a short story, usually the short story will revolve around those themes even if it does not describe or portray the issues explicitly. Go into this collection aware that, however brief, the intention of the author is to bring to light many real-world things in a creepy, eerie, or supernatural way, but a way that resonates deeply. In my opinion, it is mindfully executed with a deft and subtle hand. The author writes from cultural experience.