Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

218 reviews

throwback682's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

This is a pretty damn brilliant concept and retelling of Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher. 

It sort of provides a logical scientific explanation for the downfall of the Usher siblings and their ancestral home, but while at the same time making it even MORE creepy. 

What the author did to fill out the character of the narrator was really interesting, I liked kan a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Body horror, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexism, Misogyny, War, and Murder

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Confinement

There’s hunting as well as other harm done to animals.

elinor999's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Animal death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: War and Body horror

carlyoc's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? No

4.5

Alex Easton is a nonbinary soldier (pronouns ka/kan) from a fictional country in Europe in the 19th century. Ka receives a letter from a sickly childhood friend Maddie and rides to visit her in her old family home, the House of Usher (yes this is a retelling of the classic gothic novel). Maddie looks like a corpse already and her brother Roderick is acting strangely. Easton must work with a knowledgeable fungus expert he met on the road, ka's trust manservant, and a doctor friend of the family to figure out what is making the siblings sick before it spreads to the rest of the household, or beyond. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Suicide

If parasites skeeve you out and you don't want to be skeeved, this is not the book for you.

tiny_tree's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Medical content, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, War, Terminal illness, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit, Sexism, and Suicide

alynclifford's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Animal death, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide and War

cranshrooms's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

I DEVOURED this book on a rare day off. Like an animal. And I [censored] loved it. I have loved EAP since I was 8, and this scratched an itch I didn't realize I still had. I loved how the author brought in a discussion of new pronouns, gave them valuable and compelling cultural context, and then also made it relevant to the horror!! Wow. Wow. Loved it. The writing style was very Poe meets Doyle meets 2015 Tumblr user and it was absolutely perfect. The science and horror melded perfectly. I'm going to be a freak about this book for some time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Gore, Chronic illness, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

Minor: Terminal illness and Suicide

soggycedar's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

laurenh198's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Murder and Suicide

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

xxkatastrophe's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A cozy gothic retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher. If you liked Mexican Gothic, you’ll enjoy this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, War, and Murder

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

purplepenning's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.25

Ahh, T Kingfisher, inspiring me to read out of my comfort zone and into the world of classic haunted houses, creeping dread, and

zombifying fungi

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This *just* passes my personal Doctor Who/Star Trek measuring stick of tolerable horror (i.e., I can tolerate science fantasy stories that are as unsettling as the scariest episodes of those shows as long as they're also creative, interesting, thoughtful, contain endearing characters, etc.).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Self harm, Sexism, Alcohol, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

Body horror:

possession, zombie, undead