Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

337 reviews

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Body horror, Confinement, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Minor: Homophobia and Cursing

peregrinwho's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

You know when you're reading and you struggle through certain pov's so you can get to your favorite characters pov? Imagine that, but there's only two pov's and your favorite only gets 2 or 3 pages per chapter. Does that make this book bad? Absolutely not. For my tastes, it just made the pacing really slow, since things only really happened in those little windows. Maybe if there had been more prose in between to keep the mind engaged more it wouldn't have felt this way. What did happen was very intriguing and thought-provoking however, and the author has a way of describing physical things that makes you feel like you can touch them. It's just too bad I cared about the mystery more than the internal conflict of the characters the mystery symbolized. Either way, it will make you tear up on the last few pages.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

audioaxolotl's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

mapleleaf_kat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

The book was really good but I’m not sure if it’s going to stay in my psyche the same way it has for other readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Body horror, and Death

breebeebaz's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

sad but beautiful, nauseating at times. horror in a human way, not in a scary way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Abandonment

aristarcodisamo's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Sexual content, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

jcshells's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Suicide, Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol and Homophobia

eggboy397's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Grief, and Death

elliebasta's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Body horror, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent and Violence

exhaustrovert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Haunting narrative, I don't often (ever) write in books but this one drive me to find a pencil and add my thoughts in the margins. I long for the sea, and grieve.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Suicide, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Terminal illness, Dysphoria, Body horror, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis