Reviews tagging 'Death'

Distância de Segurança by Samanta Schweblin

40 reviews

fiaharringbook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

bexcloud's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body horror and Medical content

nreyno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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

Such a quick read with a lot happening (hence the title), thought I’d somehow missed stuff. I understand the author pulled inspiration from the very real consequences of harmful pesticides being used in Argentina but I didn’t like the way the disabled children were written about in this. It just felt off and I can’t quite put my finger on it on the exact reason. The ending was heartbreaking though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse

mayjulyn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death

issymaae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Body horror and Medical content

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Much preferred this to the previous book i read by schweblin, a curious fever dream following a mother piecing together her memories and trying to protect her daughter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

ribbenkast's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.25

This book is exactly what the title suggests: a complete fever dream. 

The prose and storytelling devise were interesting enough. I liked the themes of motherhood, grief and the various motives used by the author. Overall I think this book is very clever and has all the checkmarks of becoming a future classic. 

But (and this might be a translation issue) I found it hard to understand what was going on. Despite It's overall literary quality I couldn't quite manage to connect with the book personally. I like unreliable narrotors, especially ones that also have no clue about what is actually happening, but I felt like the hints that are supposed to tell the reader what was actually going on where too hidden away in throwaway lines and are easily missed. You have to be paying attention to every single little word in every sentence and whilst I can respect that whenever an author is doing that, I just didnt care much for it with this particular story.  

Also, the back blurb and especially the recommendation qoutes on the inside promised me a bone chilling horror story that would "make me lock the doors at night". Why? The "danger" in the book (if you could call it that) has nothing to do with horror and does not leave you spooked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gotnoculture's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

amyteurhour's review against another edition

3.5

Content warning: death, medical illness/trauma

I started reading this book years ago, but never finished because I got a bit creeped out. I finally decided to give it another try, because of all the good reviews that made me pick it up in the first place. It was still really tense and a bit creepy

I kept thinking that Clara would turn out to be a bad guy and try to steal Nina

. The end was so abrupt

and I'm not really sure how we were supposed to know that's what happened, since the whole book is from Amanda's POV, and I'm pretty sure she died?

. Anyways, creepy, but I'm glad I finally read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma