Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

3 reviews

aardwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

When you go high concept, you have to nail it. There are moments that veer too saccharine or too gruesome where the balance fails, but overall, the Hollow Kingdom sticks that landing. ST's voice wobbles from time to time, but he draws you in anyway. The post-apocalyptic adventure log is a forgiving genre. Come for the touching moments, stay for the nightmarish body horror. The book falls into a few amateurish pitfalls, namely that main characters have deaths and sacrifices mourned and treasured while nameless side characters fall by the wayside immediately forgotten, and the clumsy attempts to shoehorn science into what is clearly a supernatural change, but ST and friends carry you past. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Cannibalism, Vomit, and Violence

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Grief, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Excrement, Medical content, Racism, and Suicide

nxclx's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad fast-paced

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

4.25

This book was recommended for a Pisces, and I don't know if all Pisces will enjoy it, but I thought it was very enjoyable and hilarious. S.T. is a mofo and a crow, and while there was a part around 75% that kinda lost me, I got pulled back in and loved the ending.

Also, read the warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Murder and Sexual content

It's the fall of humanity to a virus that causes grotesque mutations from a crow's perspective - what do you expect?