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dasrach's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Blood, Alcohol, Animal death, Gore, Death, Murder, Suicide, and Violence
darkndfoxes's review
2.0
Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Suicide, and Death
seanml's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Medical content, Gore, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Gaslighting, and Gun violence
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Suicide, and Vomit
Minor: Confinement
frogggirl2's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
From a practical standpoint, the character's decisions bothers me: How come they moved to this place at all since the wife clearly didn't want to? She is shown throughout to be a pragmatic woman who is not a doormat. How come they never have a conversation about everything that's going on? The husband and wife never sit down and have any conversation at all throughout the entire book. Why doesn't he propose sending their child to a grandparent's house or a friend's house or an uncle's house or literally anywhere early on? I think the answer to all this from the author's point of view would be the curse, but, that doesn't doesn't really work - to me the character actions don't seem entirely plausible. I think this is all down to the fact that more time is spent on the many denouements than on character building. After the first bit of the novel, his wife and daughter become nonexistent - they're basically just motivations for the male character - which is always a poor use of female characters.
Also, do we really need these voluminous story notes which basically just explain the plot? Either you succeeded with the story or we need these story notes. Not both.
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Animal death
gracklewarp's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Murder, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Suicide, Gore, and Child abuse
Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, and Vomit