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katfrenn_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Gore
vellichora's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Gore, and Blood
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Death of parent and Infidelity
rackncheese's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Ginger Snaps is possibly one of my favorite movies of all time, and Rachel Harrison really took that story and built on it for a new werewolf story for adult women instead of teens. We've got heavy sexual assault allegory here with the werewolf attack and how our main character has to go on with her life afterward, and then also some really good trauma rep and the ways that society treats women.
As a survivor, all of this rang incredibly true for me, especially the complicated relationship with her mom? Ugh. I had to take a break in the middle; it just got too real at times. Love love love everything about this. Must buy myself a copy to annotate immediately.
Moderate: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Rape
grimdark_dad's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence
maddsmann's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Vomit, Blood, Car accident, Body horror, Violence, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Car accident, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Grief, and Sexual assault
Minor: Pregnancy
raisinreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
3.0
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Moderate: Body horror and Grief
Minor: Incest, Death of parent, and Infidelity
spines's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Not very spooky although some of the imagery and descriptions were gruesome (in the best way!).
Graphic: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Blood, and Body horror
caseymac's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Mental illness, Body horror, Medical content, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Alcohol
Moderate: Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts
vixenreader's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
is a supernatural drama, it still is an engaging read about the how internalized rage and trauma can manifest decades later, and at the most inopportune time.
Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexual content
Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Child abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
There is also excessive vaping, smoking, strained mother/daughter relationships, a childbirth scene and complications during a pregnancy.kaiyakaiyo'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
3.75
Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of a female rage book ending in a path towards peace but I’m just so fucking tired of the trope. She spent the most miserable few months in this town & suddenly she’s willing to drop her job, home, and everything else for a cute guy? It just felt incredibly unrealistic and gave a very cloying sense that all of her success and achievement was some sort of compensation for her trauma, and that ~healing~ means a man and settling down near family and ~forgiveness no matter what~… Can’t girls be high-powered & angry AND heal? Idk in 2023 I’d hoped to read something a little outside of the box considering how much good material this started with. much of this book felt like approaching a hard topic just to veer off into safe fade to black territory
I also really disliked how the author makes a point of having Scarlett be incredibly ambivalent about having a baby, but was too cowardly to explore the idea that she didn’t actually want it in the first place… she just waffles about it until she’s magically is incandescently happy about a baby she’s been angsting about for 9 months… like if you’re going to get real about motherhood not being some happy great ride 24/7 we should’ve gotten a look into Scarlett considering if she even wanted to have it, deciding that she did, etc.
I think this author started out with some really interesting points on how women are allowed to feel and express themselves, but ended up writing herself into the same “stay home & marry your high school sweetheart to be happy” corner that so much romance ends up in. The family dynamics were even more disappointing; “cave to your family’s wants to keep the peace” is not exactly what I signed up for. Disappointing but hopefully reading this will get the book rec algorithm to give me something like it except with an author willing to shake things up
Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, Sexual assault, Gore, Blood, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Self harm, Pedophilia, Body horror, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual violence