Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

9 reviews

insectcondo's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Incest and Trafficking

Minor: Eating disorder, Violence, Excrement, and Death of parent

andlovetoowillruinus's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Incest, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Excrement

readersbutterfly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

0.5

So much of this was hard to read, which may be in part due to the translation. I think this book actually dragged on quite a bit, but it has made me think a lot about how women in Japanese society actually grow up. There is so much idolization of Japan’s culture, so much skimming over weird subtext in anime, blatant misogyny. While this is fiction, fiction holds a grain of truth. I think that’s what is unnerving about kirino’s writing. However wild she may dive, it never seems too wild. Graphic book, trigger warning for everything! I will also add that I did enjoy the emboldening of sex workers, even if they came from wildly different perspectives. Too often this world has been trained to think of them as as revolting whores or lustful accompaniments to men’s revulsion. But this paints women’s sexuality as their own, as sex work being a basis of freedom and accompaniment and success for others, truly, and points out how misogyny is known to the sex worker too, and the only difference between disgust with a sex worker’s johns and a sex worker’s own disgust, is that the johns can get away with killing them for it easier.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Trafficking, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Incest, Suicide, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Excrement and Dementia

phantomfighter724's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicide, Dementia, Death of parent, and Alcohol

charliereads23's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

ariesbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Incest

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

ceciliabereadin's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-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

4.0

This book needed to be 100 pages shorter but other than that, I found it so interesting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Classism

katiieecat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, and Death of parent