Reviews tagging 'Blood'

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

8 reviews

snapeygan's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

WOW. That graphic novel was simply great. I loved all of it. I won’t say it was relatable cause I think the author heard that enough, but it helped me put words on feelings I have since forever. Thank you for your art, thank you for being you.

That graphic novel is about being human, simply. I recommend it to everyone. It has great illustrations, it’s funny, inspiring, it makes us think about life, it’s short and yet I would have took more.

I will definitely be reading everything she ever did and everything she ever will make.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Homophobia, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mabellene's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Within the first two pages, I was hooked. This is such a dark, emotional, real graphic novel. This definitely isn’t a feel good read, but I loved that about it. It dark times, I don’t want to read something where everything magically works out and everything gets better at the end. I want something heavy and gritty, and that’s exactly what this book gives you. The potato scene in particular was so painfully relatable. 

I’m not sure enjoyed is the right word to use, but I am really glad to have read this and that it exists.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Vomit

djbobthegirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

librarymouse's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

I stopped reading on page 127 for over a month, for no discernable reason. However, I really did enjoy this book. I like reading things that make the author/artist feel real and tangible on the other side of the book. Somehow, that's still rare when reading memoirs. The illustrations are fantastic and Thorogood has a strong voice. I also really enjoyed the meta bits.

This book has one of the most eye catching and memorable opening lines I've read recently.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Blood

readingpicnic's review against another edition

4.5

This book doesn’t shy away from honestly depicting very heavy topics of mental illness, self harm, self hatred, and su*cidal thoughts, and I appreciated that. I don’t want to say it was “relatable” like all of the people at the con in the book did…but it was and I saw myself in this. I thought the art style and formatting was SO creative, and the depression monster and body horror drawings were so incredible and creepy and made me feel itchy under my skin. There was also lots of humor in this book and it was genuinely funny. I feel like I should have read her other book first since she talks so much about it, but I’ll get to it soon!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia

samugranjo's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Chronic illness, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Blood and Lesbophobia

spooderman's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Xenophobia, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

g_occhialini's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Blood