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Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

23 reviews

purplatypus's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Car accident

tina94's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

aseel_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I don't really understand this book... it reminds of this dark academia/fantasy/translated East European book I read, the plasma (if that's the right spelling) was just werid as. the pacing was a bit off and I felt like the short snippets of everything made it really hard to understand the characters. I was interested in the mental state of the characters likes ines or baby but mm, done pretty poorly. the ending was just like 'ah okay then'. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

reedsky's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Vomit

meganelise's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

This book gave me serious Magicians meets Mexican Gothic vibes. Something is very clearly OFF about Catherine House from the start, but despite that, the characters are also doing typical college student antics (drinking too much, lots of casual sex, etc.). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Body horror, Sexual content, and Blood

sunsetcity's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Take that review with a grain of salt. This book was super bizarre and I'm not sure I ever really knew what was going on, but I read through it really quickly and enjoyed my time reading it. I think the ending was super unsatisfying and way too open ended for this kind of story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

rosita's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

4.5

As soon as I started reading, I was trapped in Catherine House, and it only got better. If you are up for a dark, setting-driven story with casual queer and poc representation, and a sprinkle of science fiction, can't recommend it enough.
It doesnt really have a plot, but i loved that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Drug use, and Vomit

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicide, and Car accident

ballgownsandbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit

thevietvegan's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I like how sex positive the book is, and there is diversity in sexuality in a way that felt normal even though it's based in the late 90s and sexuality in the world then was not quite as accepted to be fluid. But Catherine House is it's own little world anyway so it felt believable. The love interest

Theo

as a character seemed inconsistent to me, so in love with the idea of Ines instead of actually Ines. In the end, very few people truly understood Ines and that seemed so lonely.

It also ends on a cliffhanger and that felt unsatisfying, but at the same time, I understand that open-endedness was the only way for it to go without an entire other book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

typedtruths's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 i didn't think it was that weird?? but i loved it


➸ Trigger warnings for

slut shaming, dubcon scenes, suicide, alcohol consumption & abuse, emesis, medical examination, unethical human medical experimentation, needles, grief depiction, death of a sister mentioned, death of a best friend & classmate, captivity & forced isolation, and animal experimentation & injury

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▷ Representation: Ines (mc) is Black & queer; queer & bipoc scs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Medical content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, and Vomit