Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

4 reviews

traa's review

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

catapocalypse's review

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

This collection was quite a ride. There were many messy people, places, and things throughout. Oftentimes, a story was a character study set in a world with peculiarities which themselves could hold an ocean's depth of story behind them. I was unsure of things at first, but honestly, I expect that a reread could bump it up to a five-star rating. There's just so much to unpack; it would take a very close reading, like studying scripture.

My favorites of the bunch were the first and final stories: "Summer People" and "Light," respectively.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

mlewis's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Gore, Homophobia, Incest, Slavery, Lesbophobia, and Classism

mle11's review

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The world-building is very adventurous in these short stories, sometimes to the point where I couldn't tell what was going on. At its best, these stories are imaginative and very immersive and read like a mystery we're unraveling. At worst, they were kind of nonsense that would only make sense on a second or third read. My favorite stories were The Summer People and Two Houses.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Incest, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment