Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

6 reviews

ouroborian's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Abandonment, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Hate crime, Car accident, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, Cursing, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Alcohol, Bullying, and Infertility

elkboy23's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Violence, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Alcohol, and Gore

Moderate: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Racism, Stalking, Police brutality, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Hate crime

Minor: Classism, Grief, Racial slurs, and Fire/Fire injury

amsswim's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

THis book was a new type of horror for me that I hadn't read before. The perspective shifts don't seem out of the ordinary until the "you" phrases come out with second person. I don't think I have read something like that before, but it gave a watched/watching feeling to the whole novel.  The story was great, the descriptions and general writing style I loved, I could truly see the movie playing out before me. I'd recommend to any fans of horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, and Genocide

Minor: Car accident, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Addiction

dayslife143's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

Make sure you check the content warnings for this book! The first 3rd of the book was really hard to read because its very dark and I wasn't prepared for it. However overall the story is really good and if you are in the right head space worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Drug use, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Gore

literarywreck's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Violence, Animal cruelty, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Stalking, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Colonisation, Murder, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, and Torture

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, and Racism

madarauchiha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜  my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️

I do love the characters' voices. they feel individual yet familiarly similar to each other. Truly nailed the feeling of community, to me. The writing in general is excellent.

“Jolene?” he calls out. “That you, girl?”
When you don’t answer he flattens his lips and cuts a sharp whistle, slapping the leg of his jeans twice.
You’re no dog, either.
Also: There are no dogs. Not anymore. 

The author manages to make this paragraph fucking TERRIFYING in context.

I liked the

basketball game. sometimes things dont make sense, especially to younger people, kids, so they filter it through whatever they know best to understand the unknowable. The Elk woman plays by her rules and so does Denorah with basketball. I like that it also shows Denorahs

survival skills. Things going crazy? Go along, go fighting on, until you find a way to survive it.

Oh! And I love that humans

hunted through persistence hunting and the elk woman was doing the same in the finale.

It's like poetry, how it replicates the start of it all. I want to say there's implications of generational trauma that is being touched upon. I'm not Native so I'm not going to talk out my ass here though.

What is horror but healing? the ending made me bawl in relief. This book us immaculate horror and a must read for everyone. 


Content warnings:

minor drug overdose, drug abuse, domestic abuse?, 

medium drug abuse, body horror, police abuse, alcohol use, unsanitary, animal hunting, death, 

major animal death, animal hunting, anti native racism, body horror, child death, dogs, emetophobia, gore, gun violence, guns, murder, police, suicidal thoughts, suicide, vomit / emetophobia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug abuse, Body horror, Police brutality, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug abuse