Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman

5 reviews

hauntedantiqueshop's review

dark mysterious sad medium-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

2.0

Can’t even lie, they really had me in the first half of this book. There’s some really good horror imagery in this, I really loved the marine life aspects. I totally get why it’d be classified as a southern gothic folk horror and it does work for a while but it gets overshadowed (for me at least) by alternating unreliable prospectives, the weird focus on motherhood instead of parenthood when there are multiple parents in the story, and then that anticlimactic ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Miscarriage and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

bookcaptivated's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Kidnapping

blacksphinx's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Self harm and Fire/Fire injury

sunflower_badger's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book made me sick to read with some of the descriptions. Definitely not what I expected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

rhiannonafternoon's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death