Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Things She's Seen by Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Ambelin Kwaymullina

4 reviews

tinypotato21's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Child death, Medical content, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Racism, Violence, Death, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

awkwardimagination's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This is an ghost story about grief and hope. It spans across the past and present to create this nonlinear, multigenerational story about Aboriginal women/girls. The beginning to middle was kinda mediocre - interesting but not anything great. The middle to end was were it started to hit and I started having fun (for lack of better word) with reading, sleuthing out the meaning behind Catching's story. Speaking of Catching, there is something special about her character that I love. She gets straight to the point and her chapters are written in a nontraditional way that reflects her personality well. Beth herself was kind of annoying at times, but it was forgivable considering her circumstances and wasn't something I hated. I liked this book much better than I thought I would despite the bland start because eventhough I was a little bored with it, it was still intriguing to read. I say give this a try if youre looking for something fast to read. Not something light, fast because this book is dark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Racism, Child abuse, Child death, Hate crime, Death of parent, Grief, and Torture

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction and Colonisation

binreads's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

3.0

Solid read, wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. It could’ve honestly been so much longer so that the story could have had more space to grow.

It took me until Catching’s last few chapters that I realized what had happened, and what her stories truly meant. I was just reading to read, I normally don’t do well with poetry stanza type of writing. I found myself not really processing the words I was reading, kept zoning out and having to go back to re-read. Silly me didn’t think too much into the Catching stories until the very end where I was like….wait is this what I think it is.  

 

I like the delicate way they approached this story. I definitely want to go back and skim what I didn’t pick up on the first time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Child death, and Racism

Moderate: Car accident, Body horror, and Child abuse

Minor: Kidnapping

emily_mh's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

The mystery storyline of this book was great and kept the plot moving, but I also loved that the mystery wasn’t the point of the book. Its significance lay in its exposure of the brutality of colonisation, and its beautiful and heartbreaking exploration of grief. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Racism, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Medical content, Drug use, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Ableism, Bullying, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

Colourism, the Stolen Generations, police corruption