Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

56 reviews

kmartin's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death, Gore, and Animal death

turtleofhades's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.75

This book. This book is gonna leave me with nightmares for the next little while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Animal death, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, Child death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abandonment, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Islamophobia, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cursing, Mental illness, Classism, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexism

pinkalpaca's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Animal death, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse

kimberlyswalters's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I struggled to put this book down every evening. I was hooked from the very beginning, but also too scared to let myself finish it quickly. I suffer from stress hallucinations and would rather not risk seeing Katherine in my bedroom, so smaller doses of this nightmarish read were necessary. I rated it 4.75/5 because I still have a few questions I want answered and it bugs me that I'll never know the answers to them, and I do think answering some of them would benefit the storytelling. I understand that not everything has to be explained in full detail, but I don't like having as many questions as I do. I still would highly recommend reading this. A story this fun and haunting is worth the extra questions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Gun violence, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident and Excrement

k277's review

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

0.25

Hated it. This book has a scary premise but never manages to be scary. It throws in random, disgusting moments (usually at the expense of women) that were completely unnecessary that made me want to stop reading. The author has a random obsession over women's breasts being hurt and it made me deeply uncomfortable that this was an ongoing theme. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Animal death, Body horror, Rape, Death, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

monstersinspace's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This book is very obviously written by a man, and a man obsessed with Steven King no less. It reads like a book written in 1970, casual sexism and all. There are only three named female characters who actually get to talk. The constant unnecessary groping of the character who was a victim of domestic violence was so unnecessary and added nothing to the story. I only suffered through the meandering end in the hope that something satisfying would come about from the witch, but was let down completely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Animal death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

thee_neohasidist's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child abuse and Animal death

woshuaa's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.5

i am feeling benevolent and gave it two stars instead of one because there were a couple of moments in the book that i did actually enjoy. mostly it was just incomprehensible and if i wasn’t reading this for a book club i would have dropped it less than 100 pages in. i had more fun getting my wisdom teeth removed three days ago than i did reading constant descriptions of people’s nipples, completely nonsensical metaphors, and twelve paragraphs of history that was genuinely not relevant to anything at all and never came up again. at no point did i care about any of the characters or what was happening to them except for the dog and he had to go and die so what was even the goddamn point

(copied from my goodreads idk)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

geerbeer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

Leuk boek. Baalde alleen van de mega misogyne teksten, de onnodige dan die niet echt een punt maken behalve shockeren. Vooral nieuwsgierig heel de tijd, ik vond het in het begin een beetje 'eary', maar niet eng voor de rest van het boek.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Child death, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Death, Rape, Blood, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Physical abuse and Racism

xxkatastrophe's review against another edition

I’m not super invested. I’m almost halfway through and I almost have no idea what’s going on, can’t remember any of the characters or the plot. I might try and come back to it later down the line because I like the premise. I don’t think I’m in the “proper headspace” to enjoy this right now.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death