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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

103 reviews

kelisabeth's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Confinement, Death, Chronic illness, Violence, Body horror, Gun violence, Blood, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

pejms's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Dysphoria, Gore, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Transphobia and War

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Misogyny, Suicide, Animal death, Body horror, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, and Transphobia

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

T. Kingfisher comes in clutch yet again. What a creepy and eerie story. I was in fact quiet scared while reading this. Still love mushrooms but now I'm a bit terrified of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, War, Animal death, Alcohol, Death, Sexism, and Mental illness

Minor: Violence, Gun violence, Transphobia, and Vomit

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.

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

star_charter152's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Alcohol, Body horror, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death, Grief, and Vomit

Minor: War

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

shadowykittenwizard's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Death, Murder, Animal death, Blood, and Body horror

bohemianhermit04's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol, Grief, Medical content, Murder, and War