Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

80 reviews

angryoppossum's review against another edition

funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming

nonnyfullofmoose's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.25

Ghosts in the suburbia of NC, with all the passive aggressive oppression we're famous for. Delightful

Also I love how kingfisher matches horror with humor.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

asmei's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Blood, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Dementia, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Cannibalism

cardaisy's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

I saw some other reviews describing this as "cozy horror" and that's exactly what it is 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Racism, Dementia, and Grief

Bugs

jenniferesque's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Classism

meliacartin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

the narration made it feel too cheeky to be a true horror book but the descriptions of the underground children were so creepy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Blood, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

startjpw23's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

This books stars Sam (short for Samantha). She is a 32-year-old archaeoentomologist. She studies insect remains in digs. During the latest dig that Samantha was working on, human remains were discovered. The dig was stopped while the issue was sorted out. As this could take months, and Sam only had one other small source of income, she moved in with her mother. Her mother owns the house that was previously owned by Sam's grandmother. Sam lived in this house with her grandmother and mother while she was growing up. At the beginning of the story, as Sam arrives at the house, there is a vulture on the mailbox. Sam quickly becomes concerned that her mother is behaving strangely. She has lost a lot of weight. She is skittish. She has made changes to the house that Sam doesn't understand. Strange things start to happen. Sam's grandmother was a strict, not very nice person. Sam has some not so fond memories of her time growing up there. As does her brother, who also is concerned about the behavior of their mother. There are a bunch of rose bushes of different varieties in the backyard. They are flourishing. Sam notices that there are hardly any bugs on the rose bushes. There should be a lot of them. The book talks about the family drama between Sam's grandmother and Sam's mother and between her grandmother, herself, and her brother. I thought the book did a great job gradually revealing what is going on. Sam has an amusing sense of humor. As a scientist, Sam is resistant that what she is seeing is actually real. The latter part of the book was thrilling and very tense. Sam is a great, realistic heroine. I found the supporting cast interesting. I recommend this to anyone who wants to read a horror novel with an appealing heroine, an interesting supporting cast, some family drama, horror aspects that are gradually revealed, and a tense, thrilling exciting conclusion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

raptorq's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Body shaming

Moderate: Racism and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fatphobia and Cannibalism

woolerys's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

I laughed at many of the one-liners; I found the characters very likable (with one obvious exception); I thought the plot was fairly predictable but it did go a little farther off the deep end than I was expecting! Loved having an entomologist—sorry, an archeoentomologist—for a protagonist, and I loved the vultures.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse and Dementia

Minor: Racism and Injury/Injury detail

nikrib's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Dementia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail