Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

78 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

this is such a good book!!! definitely deserves all of the hype and the classic title, shirley jackson is a phenomenal writer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, and Death

emmonsannae's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The slow dread of this book is unparalleled. Its tragedy is both self-aware and utterly unavoidable. What an excellent read! I can already tell I will be coming back to this again and again. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Car accident, Alcohol, and Death of parent

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Big thanks to my newest literary heroine Shirley Jackson for yassifying the ghost story. You truly were ahead of your time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Bullying, Abandonment, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Grief, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexism, and Blood

mothie_girlie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Just didn't hit right, also this is so queer coded?? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic friendship, Death, and Blood

pferdina's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

Four people, a professor and three young women and men, come to spend the summer at a haunted house to research it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Blood

silea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Suicide, Death of parent, Mental illness, Child death, and Death

louiepotterbook's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

1.0

Eleanor deserved better and the fact that Theo lived and she didn’t is absolute bullshit

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Sexism, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Violence

motherofbears's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

This is a solid, slow burn, spooky tale told from an unreliable narrator, which makes for some interesting assumptions. If you are looking for gore or to be terrified, this is probably not the book for you. It is only loosely related to the Netflix series(very good, imo) of the same name and a lot more like the 90s movie with Catherine Zeta-Jones — which, honestly, great casting. 

However, there is an uneasy feeling immediately that slowly builds, the house is described well and some of the scares (there are a couple, you have to really put yourself in the story though) were truly scary in that “hair on your arms stands up” way. “Hill House” as a myth adds depth to this outside of our story, we only get a taste of what the house is and the strange happenings. A nice little haunting story that leaves you feeling a little more shaken than you expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Suicide

twistykris's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying and Grief