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saintswitchblade's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
4.0
OOF. I loved this one as well. I somehow wish it was longer while simultaneously knowing it was exactly what it was meant to be.
Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Gore, Self harm, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Slavery, and Blood
booking_along's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
as soon as she heard word that Albert, the Missus’s husband, had been slain in battle, she took up arms against the family who’d raised her, slipping a tincture of valerian root and skullcap into their cups of warmed milk before slitting their throats in the night.
with a similar tone to this section of the introduction paragraph to the story, is the entire thing told.
it’s dark and sometimes gruesome, mysterious in the way that it never explained what’s going on and how it happens it why in actual ways that make sense.
but at the same time does a story like this had to offer all the answers to its questions? or is it part of the story to be short enough to not need everything explain and just go along with it?
i am not exactly sure why i enjoyed this but i did.
it’s different and strange, brutal and bloody but also strangely hopeful in moments.
if you want a short horror story that’s different but interesting?
go for it.
Graphic: Murder, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Blood, Suicide, Self harm, and Pregnancy
f18's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Suicide, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Pregnancy, and Gore
Minor: Slavery and War
madarauchiha's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Graphic: Slavery, Murder, Body horror, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Gore
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Murder
coldbrewedpages's review
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Rivers Solomon has a way with the short story that I am simultaneously envious of and ravenous for. This story doesn't disappoint; revenge, gore, grappling with cycles of life and death, the concept of rebirth, found family, all hanging somewhere between horror and reality in a place where a girl like Sully is real and the traumatic things that happen to her are equally that and otherworldly.
If Rivers Solomon ever chose to expand on this story, its world, its characters, you would not find me disappointed.
If Rivers Solomon ever chose to expand on this story, its world, its characters, you would not find me disappointed.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Suicide, and Gore
Minor: Slavery
Blood, Body Horror, Gore, Violence: Scenes that include the murder of slave owners, descriptions of blood, viscera, etc. Detailed depiction of traumatic childbirth. Suicide, Gore:
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