strabbyfieldz's reviews
63 reviews

Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

so good in so many different ways: great concept! (sirens but they're big evil eels who are also incubating humans hell yeah) consequences in Rose's life and impact on those close to her! (tho not comfortable with how willfully dw authors mistreat Mickey :/) doctor rose angst !! and also dancing around feelings !!! 

D'you think I don't want to go jumping into the Thames after Rose? You think I don't want to... [...] I do want to, and I didn't even see her clearly. 

is tattooed into my brain matter they are deeply unwell about each other (delighted)

my only issues are the doctor felt a bit TOO quippy sometimes and that it felt like the complexity of the villain's plan spiralled out until it was like ?!?!?!?!? what is going on... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Misogyny

Doctor Who: Only Human by Gareth Roberts

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

3.75

definitely one of the better ones. doctor's voice was SO pitch perfect I could hear him and Rose was a delight and there was body horror so frankly. a win all around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

a doctor who book about doctor who 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism

Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

existential horror and dread yippeeee the horrors!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Violence

Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards

adventurous fast-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? No

0.0

yikes!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Colonisation

Moderate: Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, and Murder

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

challenging emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

3.0

um so I was going to put 'most normal repressed victorian' as my review. but then the ending happened. and now I feel like I've been punched in the gut lol. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Racism, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Stalking

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

challenging dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

and what, in the end, if love was the thread that connects us all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Incest

Gallathea by John Lyly

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

the humans just talking to the Gods really threw me through a loop like ????? 'Oh hi Neptune yea that's my kid XD' what do u mean????

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual content

The Odyssey by Homer

adventurous dark funny 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

3.75

still thinking about odysseus' 'heh nothing personnel kid moment' where he dodges that cow hoof and gives a sardonic little grin. dude really thinks he's an anime protag.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse and War

Minor: Animal death, Torture, and Trafficking

How to Be Both by Ali Smith

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective fast-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? No

4.25

I wish I could see this book as a whole and this book as a string of sentences in my head at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts