Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III

20 reviews

rowanw51's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Vomit, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Excrement, and Pregnancy

sleepye's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement

blueroo's review

dark sad tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Islamophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Self harm

raventomes's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Infidelity

gaetkoguy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Quite the page turner! Dark and mysterious and quite twisted. Heed the content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

racl's review

challenging dark emotional tense 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? No

2.0

I had heard such good things about this book, but it wasn't for me. Granted, I finished it in two sittings, but it's fairly short and mostly dialogue so that's not saying much.
The very end is compelling but you have to sift through 90% of the book being fart and butt jokes (to the point it's far outside the realm of realistic for the child character).
It's more shock horror and body horror than anything else when you do get horror, but mostly it's just listening in to a deeply disfunctional family and that's not fun to me personally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

Minor: Excrement

bowlingforboots's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

itsalina's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pathyatt's review

dark 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

dannythestreet's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury