Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

15 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

I love this failgirl vampire

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

ellaleec's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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: Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Colonisation

bengami's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

I adored this book, the lower rating is for multiple parts where the main character would tell not show, which was my biggest grief with this book. But I loved the exploration of vampirism & immortal loneliness, it read as an uncomfortable & bloody coming of age/a thought experiment on what vampires would actually be like, and the mother-daughter dynamic was well-executed and beautiful. If you feel like you are losing interest in part two, continue to part three, that’s when I really started enjoying the book.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Colonisation

margauxjpg's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Racism, Blood, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Dementia, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Colonisation

bananacustard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

itsdanibee's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Murder, and Pregnancy

jminaprisc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

beautifully written and reflective story focusing on a few days in the narrator’s life as a newly independent young adult/vampire 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Dementia, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

bluedilly's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Dementia, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Gore, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

lovesit1892's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

2.0

I give this two stars for the unique perspective and modern angle that this author uses to approach the vampire trope, but it did not do much for me. I love vampires and I was excited to read a more contemporary vampire storyline with Asian/POC characters, but nothing interesting seems to happen throughout this entire book. The ending is expected and even the character's expected upheaval is uneventful when it happens. The writing lacks any description that would make it lush and detailed, it's just blunt, short sentences, "I did this. This happened."   

The uniqueness of the storyline itself had promise, but the writing makes the characters and their happenings flat and uninteresting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Dementia

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual assault, Dementia, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism