Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

6 reviews

fictionalsarah's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Animal death, Death of parent, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Self harm, Gore, Murder, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Bullying, Violence, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

zany25's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

As a short story collection there were definitely ones I enjoyed more and ones I enjoyed less and the reaction from anyone will likely be similar. A mixed bag, but I don’t regret reading it. The Great Awake, Granite, Formerly Feral, Cassandra After, and the namesake story Salt Slow were definite standouts to me. I like the muted realistic way love is portrayed in many of these stories, it feels very unidealistic and grounded at times but still interesting. 

Definitely not a collection that’s going to scare you, but it may make you shiver slightly once or twice. Dreamlike and occasionally meandering I think it shows the good and bad of Julia Armfield very well. I personally look forward to more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, and Body shaming

Potential implications of “end of the world” or radical societal change/upheaval type scenarios in some of the stories, but is not graphic. Climate change and isolation come up as themes.

aisabel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Stalking, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

morgancleaver's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Miscarriage, and Child death

Moderate: Death and Suicide

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, and Stalking

waybeyondblue's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Maybe wasn't the best choice for someone on the tail end of a chronic illness, who has spent the last year watching in disbelief as her body deteriorates, disintegrates, and does some weird shit that can't be controlled or understood... Or maybe that made it the perfect choice, I'm not sure. 

I was enthralled and repelled in equal measure; and no matter how surreal the concepts got (Sleep becoming a shadow-self; wolves becoming sisters; boyfriends turning in to stone) the stories were so anchored in reality that they seem completely believable. 

Certain images and descriptions echo through the different stories, tying them together - tangerines and jellyfish and teeth and rotting food. The stories speak to the experience of living in bodies that are essentially unstable, unknowable and unreliable organic matter; and the mundane horror of accepting we are in a constant state of mutation, change and decay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Pregnancy