Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

9 reviews

cdundes's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I WHIZZED through this audiobook - despite some heavy handed passages I was captivated by the concept and found myself double checking all the science.  Maybe time for Cannery Row soon…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

septi's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Pandemic/Epidemic

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Ah yes, the classic story of dad has son, dad and son have bad relationship, dad kills himself, son gets swallowed by whale. Ya just hate to see it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Body horror, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

The word sphincter was used an UNGODLY amount of times.

ventiristretto's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

• This story has sparked my curiousity and made me manically google details about diving at 2AM.
• Gripping read with clever and effective use of chapter names and one liners. 
• Made me cry and that does not happen often!

Also, manifesting this short story being a part of Love Death and Robots franchise at one point  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Violence, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic

laurantor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

skilb's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

geraldine's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

 jay, dearest. therapy would have been easier <3 

this poor kid and his grief over a terrible man. and then in a terrible situation comes to the wrong conclusion????? his dad fucking SUCKED dude like dude your dad is not a whale you are desperately trying to make sense of a bad situation and your dad DID suck even though you did love him and he is not a whale!!!!

i had some additional thoughts of the "reading WAY too far into things and interpreting them wildly different than i think they were intended" way but they will stay locked with me.

should i read hatchet 2: he hatchets again 

secret additional review update for storygraph only and not goodreads that is not a plot spoiler at all:

my date read tags are accurate, but i need to clarify: i read this in one go on a worknight. yes i work labor day

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

frenchsnail's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lahars_little_library's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Suicide