Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

All Hallows by Christopher Golden

2 reviews

finnsnowbevi's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Abandonment, Grief, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Alcoholism, Child death, Gore, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pedophilia, Outing, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Medical content and Sexual content

yomireads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

Often, horror as a genre takes the fear of innocence lost and social taboos and uses sexual infidelity/deviance as tool to do so. All Hallows certainly has plenty of infidelity and the like, but I don't feel it furthers the horror. If anything it muddies the waters of the story with the characters personal drama. It felt out of place with the Cunning Man and these mysterious children.

The couple on the block proported to be an open couple that swings being used as a villainous presence outside of anything supernatural felt very close-minded especially.

Done well is the alienation children feel as their parents' troubles bleed into the rest of the family, and the fear of leaving behind the familiar. The lesbian character does feel a touch on the nose, but the fear of being outed and the tenuous hold on who to trust is good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Alcohol, Infidelity, Outing, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Kidnapping, Confinement, Pedophilia, Self harm, and Physical abuse