Reviews tagging 'Death'

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

9 reviews

lilifane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

What a pleasant surprise, I didn't expect to love this book so much. 
This is a creepy, atmospheric gothic haunted house story with queer representation, really good themes and a satisfying ending. There are not many of those out there. 
Although it's YA, it's also very dark. It deals with violence against girls, and there is gore. I would recommend for the upcoming spooky season, if you haven't read it yet. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Murder, Gore, Blood, Child death, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

jjames_mal's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

5.0

This YA horror follows a girl who has a very particular and dark past, who gets the chance to inherit a mansion and millions of dollars if she stays there for a year, but more than that she gets answers.

I just read this book in one sitting and I’ve completely forgot how to describe anything. The plot is good, the writing is beautiful, the hardback has stained my fingers blue after not putting it down for hours. I think describing it as a horror doesn’t do it justice as it’s also very speculative fiction and doesn’t focus so much on some gory details as the otherworldly weight of it all. I would recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Confinement and Alcoholism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

sunshinestark's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Violence, and Child death

kennabrooke's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Adult/minor relationship

fictionaladventures's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This kind of blew my mind!! It was super good. Definitely a page turner. I really got swept away in the story, which doesn’t actually happen all that often for me, even though I read a ton. I thought it was masterfully done and incredibly unique. The Inheritance Games + The Haunting of Hill House. I’d recommend this to fans of Darcy Coates, especially Gallows Hill. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, and Gun violence

itsapollo's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror and Child death

Minor: Vomit

hannamurman's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Kate Alice Marshall never ceases to amaze me!!!!! Rules for Vanishing will probably always be my favourite of hers but so far I’ve read all of her books in one sitting because I just can’t put them down! So good 😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Child death

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Gore

caidyn's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.25

What a fantastic start to the 2022 spooky season! This book gripped me and kept me wondering what would happen next. I also loved how casually queer it was, especially including an elderly queer person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Medical content, Murder, and Medical trauma

Minor: Dementia

harmonique's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Violence, Blood, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia and Racism