Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

61 reviews

zoeoz's review against another edition

dark 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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

three cheers for this weird, unsettling, & bloody little morsel of a fairytale!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Miscarriage

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, and Miscarriage

allylujah's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

An incredibly visceral experience

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, and Miscarriage

sn8man's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Animal death

jvbook_reader's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Confinement and Kidnapping

Minor: Rape

nathiddles_106's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Murder

_readerfromtheblacklagoon_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

mijtje's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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

3.75

”There is nothing wrong with being a monster”

This is a very, very dark and twisted alternative conclusion to the story of The Little Mermaid. After murdering her prince, she travels together with a plague doctor, running into a village of children they then try to save. It’s a beautiful (and disgusting) story about love in a horrible world, and refusing to give up on each other.

The writing, however, is pretentious. The author seems to have written it with thesaurus.com to replace all normal-sounding words with the most uncommon, obscure and complex alternatives she could find. Words with one vowel? Nope. Not in this book. Even my e-reader’s dictionary struggled to keep up. 

It’s a shame, because underneath the overly complicated language, the writing itself is quite good and poetic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

meg_thebrave's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This novella is like reading gruesome, brutal poetry, turning a fairytale on its head. I loved it. I look forward to reading more of Khaw’s work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury