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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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Suicide, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Pregnancy, and Gore
Minor: Slavery and War
hoppingpages's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
5.0
Incredible.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery and Racism
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Murder, Body horror, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Gore
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Murder
_fallinglight_'s review
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Bizarro. Intriguing. Gloomy. I honestly found its enigmatic inordinate sentences beautiful, and the story flowed like one weird as hell dream. The (re)birthing thing –amplified by my tokophobia– freaked me tf out, but I enjoyed it a lot regardless.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Pregnancy, and Slavery
Moderate: Murder and Suicide attempt
Minor: Vomit
liteartha's review
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Body horror
Moderate: Slavery and Suicide
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.
Content Warnings
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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