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57 reviews
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
challenging
dark
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I find myself uncertain how to feel about this book: somehow it is not grotesque enough, while also relishing it the lashings of blood and other viscera it produces far too much.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Child death, Animal death, and Body horror
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
takes a profound and perturbing turn for the racist and antisemitic about two thirds of the way in.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Antisemitism, and Medical content
Moderate: Misogyny
Minor: Child death
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
challenging
dark
funny
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
sporadically good; a waft of flowers after rain
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Animal death, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Gore, and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Incest, and Sexual violence
Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas by Colin Brake, Richard Dungworth, Mike Tucker, Gary Russell, Scott Handcock, Jacqueline Rayner
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
a very mixed Christmas stocking of a book: you got some chocolates, some cool presents and the occasional bruised orange, but overall I had a fun time, and recognise its very difficult to write something with the super engage mystery-adjacent format of a doctor who story in like. less than a novella amount of pages. 1, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 12's stuck out to me the most :]
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Blood, and Violence
Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole
is tattooed into my brain matter they are deeply unwell about each other (delighted)
my only issues are the doctor felt a bit TOO quippy sometimes and that it felt like the complexity of the villain's plan spiralled out until it was like ?!?!?!?!? what is going on...
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
so good in so many different ways: great concept! (sirens but they're big evil eels who are also incubating humans hell yeah) consequences in Rose's life and impact on those close to her! (tho not comfortable with how willfully dw authors mistreat Mickey :/) doctor rose angst !! and also dancing around feelings !!!
D'you think I don't want to go jumping into the Thames after Rose? You think I don't want to... [...] I do want to, and I didn't even see her clearly.
is tattooed into my brain matter they are deeply unwell about each other (delighted)
my only issues are the doctor felt a bit TOO quippy sometimes and that it felt like the complexity of the villain's plan spiralled out until it was like ?!?!?!?!? what is going on...
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse and Body horror
Moderate: Death
Minor: Misogyny
Doctor Who: Only Human by Gareth Roberts
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
definitely one of the better ones. doctor's voice was SO pitch perfect I could hear him and Rose was a delight and there was body horror so frankly. a win all around.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming
Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
a doctor who book about doctor who
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Racism
Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
existential horror and dread yippeeee the horrors!!!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Death
Moderate: Violence and Suicide
Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.0
yikes!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Colonisation
Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Body horror, Genocide, and Gore
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
challenging
emotional
funny
sad
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
3.0
um so I was going to put 'most normal repressed victorian' as my review. but then the ending happened. and now I feel like I've been punched in the gut lol.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism, Drug use, Misogyny, Grief, and Colonisation
Minor: Stalking