Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

16 reviews

themissyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Good for Her 💅🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

If you cant listen to the og Faceless Old Woman who Secretly Lives in your Home episode (Night Vale episode 26- listen to the R version from 2015 its the exact same as the 2013 original just with better audio) then this book probably isnt for you.

urmigurimgay's review against another edition

adventurous sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, and War

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Car accident

persuasive_duck's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Minor: Death of parent

ashely_56's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was such an incredible read! As some who was introduced to Weclome to.Night-Vale by a friend this books had just enough of that Night-Vale Grim-Whimsy to hook me. 
It had the found family trope that I always enjoy and surprising great asexual representation in the charming Andre. I am happy that our protagonist got some happiness in her life. Yet I must say the Albert section broke my heart into a million pieces.

Yet, This book tell the tragic story of a girl life that was destroyed by vengeance, that in turn bleeds into her afterlife. It shows what revenge can do to a soul when it is the only force guiding you. The Faceless woman is a complicated protagonist while I admire her distain for capitalism and industrialization I can't really get behind Spoiler Alert:


<Murdering each son in the lineage of the person who destroyed her life

I can get behind her murdering the person that actually did it they deserved it but the other people are innocent.>

Yet this books has so many poetic prose and profound moments that I had to give it 5 starts.

A great story if you love, found family trope, paths of vengeance, poetic prose, and pirates!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, and Gaslighting

navyredrose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Stalking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I enjoyed this book immensly! I always love a good heist and found family plot and this book really gives us great characters with great relationships. I loved the character development of the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home and seeing how she became the person we know and love from WTNV. She has a really interesting character arc and seeing her revenge story unfold is very interesting and tragic. 
This book is full of mystery and plot twists and intrigue and it is so fun to theorise while reading. And sometimes I saw things coming, but never the whole twist, never all of it; great foreshadowing with great pay-off!
It also has some amazing prose in it, in the earlier flashbacks especially with the "what X smells like" paragraphs, those really hit hard for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

hexe_19's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, and Car accident

Minor: Child death and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

millionsofmax's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mixmousereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism

librarymouse's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

You don't need to listen to the podcast to understand this book, but if you listen to the podcast you should read this book. The length to which the narrator's life is systematically and fundamentally destroyed explains her idiosyncratic behaviors on the podcast in a way that makes them make sense in the context of Night Vale's weirdness. The writing is incredibly well done and immersive, and the narrator slow descent into the violent and creepy old woman from the sweet and curious young girl were first introduced to is fully believable in the narrative.

the lengths to which Edmond worked to completely destroy not only the narrator's father's legacy, but the narrator herself are impressive and obsessive in equal measure. The effort he put in, in making sure she would never have joy, have a future, or know her family is astounding, and the revelation about lady Nora is so heartbreaking. The authors did an incredible job making the reader love the narrator even as we watched her become what she becomes. She genuinely loves Edmund's heirs right up until the moment they have a son of their own. Her sense of reality is so twisted and her need for revenge so entrenched that the cyclical nature of her revenge is both astounding and understandable. I really enjoyed that we got to see little Josefina and her angels make the faceless old woman feel welcome for the first time in a long time. After everything, Night Vale is the only place where she could belong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Suicide, Grief, and Car accident