Reviews tagging 'Death'

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

158 reviews

beccaand's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Grief, Child death, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Homophobia, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, and Fatphobia

hchandler1092's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Was expecting this book to have more descriptive horror aspects and scenes, but it was more of a creepy and morbid undertone with focus on the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death

Moderate: Suicide

gardens_and_dragons's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Death, Child death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexism and Drug use

clarkg's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

4.75

Reading this book felt like being under a spell. There were so many delicious threads to unravel that I could not stop picking at it until I reached the end. My two main critiques are that 1.) The present-day narrative is noticeably less captivating than the historical narrative and 2.) I feel like there were missed opportunities to subvert established tropes. That said, it avoided being predictable and had some genuinely unsettling moments. Reader, I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexual content, Body horror, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Pregnancy, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a re-read because I love this book. It's so weird and I can definitely understand why some people don't get on with it but it includes so many of my favourite elements - a story within a story, fictional famous people, illustrations, footnotes, queer female characters, a enigmatic narrator and a map at the beginning. Some of the intrigue was obviously lost because I knew what was going to happen but I still raced through the second half. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

ketallpot's review against another edition

Not for me

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

jillaay_h's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Vomit

celery's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Car accident, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Animal death, Cursing, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Suicide, Violence, Body horror, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Stalking, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

pjdotcom's review

dark funny lighthearted mysterious 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: Child death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Death, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

readingbrb's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia