Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

42 reviews

traa's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

podanotherjessi's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

4.0

I completely bounced off the writing style of this when I tried reading it physically, but it was well suited to audiobook. It's very much a story being told, a little direct-to-reader, and that just works better for me with a narrator.
Beyond this, the premise is not dissimilar from a lot of Kingfisher's other horror. A 30-something woman goes through a breakup (that has almost no relevance to the story) and is drawn back to a place from her childhood and quickly learns spooky things are happening. Of those (A House with Good Bones, and The Hollow Places), this one is my favorite. The world and mysterious elements are just so much more fleshed out, and I love a creepy woods.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

milanaaaah's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

If you like books like annihilation, you the scares are similar but the story is more confined to the characters in a silly and lovable way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

ilaxaria's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Dementia, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Death of parent

readwithbells's review against another edition

4.0

 Then I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself around like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones.

That made my skin crawl. Folk horror (and turns out a pulp horror retelling, thanks authors note) done absolutely right. Sometimes the humour felt a little too much and there was a point between 60-80% where so many reveals were happening the storyline got totally convoluted for me. I took a six hour break and finished the book this afternoon and I’m so glad I did because that climax was fantastic. I haven’t had a horror book make me physically shudder in a long time and this was exactly what I was looking for: something spooky and horror-feeling where I’ll still be able to sleep at night. Potentially a bit long and certainly a bit repetitive, the atmosphere wasn’t great but the body horror was; I liked it. Never gonna look at rocks the same though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Chronic illness and Mental illness

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

Moderate:

forced pregnancy

shadowspinner's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Emotional abuse, Racism, and Death of parent

readsandsuch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

The first 60% was a type of horror that really had me creeped out a scared to look out of the corner of my eye. It was thrilling, and I was sucked in. The last 30% I have mixed feeling about. The horror imagery still hit that same beat, but the plot direction and the cut-in humor was pulling me out of the story. I really don’t know exactly how I feel about the ending, but it’s not exactly positive. 

I wasn’t too fond of the narrator either, but I also didn’t hate her. Mouse’s attempted southern jokes came off as sly classiest comments and that irked me. They did disappear in the later half, but there were enough comments early on for her to leave a bad impression. 

I would rate lower, but I really did enjoy it a lot up until the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Racism and Classism

elly29's review

challenging dark 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? No

4.0

Satisfyingly creepy and well-plotted. It's about a woman who cares for her dog, and wants to help folks when they ask for help. I loved Foxey, and that it was a woman and an older woman who get to have the adventure. And this novel. Is. Out. There.

A but slow at the beginning, and bit fast at the end. Creepy all the way through. Seriously: Cotgrave and everything surrounding his death is sooo twisted.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, and Gaslighting

dreamy_demon's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Blood, and Dementia

jasmine256's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Death, Dementia, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Racism, and Death of parent