Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

61 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content and Suicide

chris_reads's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder and Injury/Injury detail

drjoannehill's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

Read on the recommendation of a friend. 

Art History grad goes to New York for curation work and works on a tarot research project.

Nope. Not for me. Mainly because of such annoying characters. I figured out who was the wrong un quite early. There was supposed to be a big disaster coming that never did (telling us things like "I wish I had left The Cloisters at that point") - tension but no grand ending. Small twists that just made me dislike people even more. 

There's not enough history of tarot or weaving in of readings, divination, or spooky goings on. A bit unfinished, to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

tetedump's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

se_wigget's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Although this didn't take place on a castle or manor house, the tone felt gothic. I would have liked less heterosexuality and more occult, but it's well written. It inspired me to order a reproduction Renaissance tarot deck on Etsy--in a wooden box.

Jaw-dropping ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Car accident, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder

sal_the_cat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

takes a while to get in, i don't like the main characters and ann specifically started with an omg everyone else is better than me i'm so bad and imerpfect attitude that seemed kinda annoying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

annikenr's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

basementofbooks's review against another edition

mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death and Suicide

caeruleandrew's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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

3.75

The beginning is really slow but it picks up toward the middle. Feel the ending was a let down, sort of blew past everything that happened, almost like a fade to black “and all was well” 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse, Car accident, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment