Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

The Need by Helen Phillips

19 reviews

snazzy_suze's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

This book was simultaneously mundane and tense - I read it an an afternoon. It might be a more interesting and meaningful read to a parent, particularly a parent who birthed and breastfed their children. For me it was just kind of boring and gross to read about the narrator lactating every other page.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Child death and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Car accident

librarianjennifer's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit

aubzilla's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Stalking, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Death, Child death, Vomit, and Grief

rockyc5's review

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

This book was like ratcheting up the first hill of a roller coaster for the incredible acts I and It. Then the coast downhill was VERY disappointing, like someone called the author unexpectedly early and told her to wrap it up. 

If you're fine w 2/3 of satisfying tension and plot, or even 3/4, go for it, but it majorly looses steam. 

Beautifully written. Unique concepts. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit

caylacolclasure's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Vomit, Child death, Excrement, and Death

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Confinement

thebiblioborrower's review

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual content

bethebluebook's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit and Blood

bsmucker's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Vomit, Excrement, and Child death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Infidelity

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

‘It had always seemed a bit deceitful to Molly, the way we put our children to bed in soft pajamas, give them milk, read them books, locate their stuffed creatures, tell them that all is well, there's nothing to be scared of, as though sleep isn't one sixteenth of death. When they resist the prospect of sleep, of long dark lonely hours, intuiting that this is indeed a rehearsal for death, we murmur to them, we rub their backs, pretending they will never die. Little do they know that behind our backs we keep our fingers crossed, and that our hearts too thump with anguish when we turn off our bedside lamps.’

‘It was a miracle, the explanation of which she hoped never to learn.’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Religious bigotry, Vomit, and Child death

shadowbird's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit, Blood, Child death, Death, Sexual content, and Kidnapping