Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

8 reviews

urfavgothlibrarian's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Dear Mr. Tirana,

You are deeply disturbed. I have never met more demented characters in my entire 38 years of life. They are evil and it is impossible to feel any empathy or sympathy for any of them. 

Keep up the good work. Never change. 

Sincerely, 
Marie Hague 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, and Gaslighting

Not for the faint of heart

samjoc's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual assault

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Ableism

thereadingdude's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

horrorhayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

When I was told this would ruin my day I didn’t believe it but this did in fact ruin my entire day 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

zea_d_writing's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I cannot recommend this book to anyone. Check trigger warnings and definitely do your research before deciding whether or not to read this book. 

I went into this knowing it was an extreme horror novel: which means I knew that its sole purpose was to be horrific, vile, disgusting, sick, revolting, shocking purely to be shocking, and potentially even offensive. I knew it would likely delve into taboo topics, as these kinds of books often do. 

And I wasn’t wrong. 

This book wasn’t actually as graphic as I expected. Don’t get me wrong…there are absolutely very graphic, very disturbing, sickening scenes and themes depicted in this book. It just wasn’t as over the top as I expected given what I had heard about this book. 
And I actually found the lore of this book really interesting and thought the storytelling itself was very effective. 

But this book is absolutely disgusting, sick, and offensive. 
I hated Lori, the main character. She’s vile in every way conceivable. Which is exactly how you’re supposed to feel about her - especially by the end. 

This book features pretty severe racism and the fetishization of Asian women. It uses slurs (g slur) and describes very graphic violence and SA towards these groups. There is also severe blatant ableism (both in how the disabled character is depicted and how the other characters treat, talk to, and talk about the disabled character. The r slur is used more than once…as well as other derogatory terms. 
The book features graphic incest and SA, murder, torture, dismemberment, violence and abuse, eating disorders, and a whole host of other triggers warnings. 

Its dark. Its graphic. Its offensive. Its sick.  I found the story itself weirdly interesting despite how twisted it was and the lore and worldbuilding were actually very intriguing. 

I’m giving this three stars because it did what it intended to do and at no point was anything written within treated like it was supposed to be anywhere near normal or moral or okay. Its an extreme horror novel and everything and everyone within was entirely fucked up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

hitnoises's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I was excited to read this but I was unfortunately let down. A very basic horror with surreal imagery and unnecessary, offensive stereotypes of disabled AND black characters. It wanted to be a lot better than it was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sexualedward's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Incest, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and War

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Blood

kostas's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Murder