Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

5 reviews

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

peggy_racham's review

4.0

A good collection of short stories. Sometimes body horror sometimes grief imbodied. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cannibalism, Body horror, Confinement, and Murder

aimnorth's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

This book reads like a collection of spooky, unsettling, and interesting stories that are fantastic. They have layers of both the surface story as well as the meaning beneath it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Death, Murder, and Body horror

sarahsycamore's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage and Murder

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The description wasn’t wrong when they said you’d enjoy it if you were a fan of Carmen Maria Machado. This definitely read almost identically to some of the stories in Her Body and Other Parties. (If you want something exactly like it, read this). 
Some stories were better than others but all were enjoyable and fun to pick apart  for a ~deeper meaning~. 

Would be a great book club book (especially if read alongside Her Body, and especially especially if read around Halloween. A fun event I’d sign up for).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and Vomit