Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Out There by Kate Folk

2 reviews

ashley_turch's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

anarchist_al's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This collection of short stories is the feminist take on horror of my dreams. Each female main character felt like an exploration and exaggeration of an aspect pf myself. I understood their impulses and descents into madness. I felt their pain and their sorrow and their resignation. Even the very few stories with a man as the main character felt feminist, focusing on universal experiences like the inherent fallacies of your own memory, or taking the concept of being swallowed up by an abusive relationship to the extreme. Lots of body horror and gaslighting and dating gone wrong and I loved it all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gore, Car accident, Confinement, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Gaslighting, Death, Medical content, and Misogyny