Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill

16 reviews

fluffyreadsthings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Kelly Barnhill never disappoints. The Crane Husband is dark, witty, and shows a stark understanding of the darker parts of family and abuse and cycles of abandonment. It is a fast read, but it sticks to you like the threads of a spiderweb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence

huntress's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

cryfest's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bessmonet's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Drug abuse and Cannibalism

ambersbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

Disturbingly beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Blood

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

5.0

Kelly Barnhill has molded an ancient Japanese folktale into a semi-futuristic Midwestern warning.  A small family lives on a plot of land with a barn—the adjacent farmland is owned by a conglomerate which uses automated machines to grow monocultures, fields patrolled by drones to keep even the birds away.  The widow is a prolific textile artist whose woven tapestries elicit extreme responses, her current work-in-progress inspired by her live-in lover, a foreboding crane.  Narrated by the woman’s fifteen-year-old daughter, this visceral retelling explores the limitations of domestic life, the contradictions of love, and the price of inheritance.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Murder