Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Broken Dolls by Mique Watson

3 reviews

itsmeanad's review

dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

Lots of child abuse and forced sexual interactions. very grusesome and anger-inducing because the whole time you are just wanting the killer to get murdered but thats what makes a good splatterpunk. gets you feeling strong disgust and anger. reminded me of the splatterpunk book no one rides for free, the first one. I kind of didn't like the ending because

the killer doesn't get brutally killed. He ends up basically getting away with it and doing it again or at least it is implied that he does it again right after.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, and Incest

Minor: Religious bigotry

rinitealeaf's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

0.5

Oh boy where to start.
This book has been one of the most disgusting thing I've ever read.
I knew going in that it was going to be extreme horror & splatterpunk but oh my I was not prepared.

It felt like all the gore and foul graphic language was there to just pile up as high as the pile can go, there was no room for character development or world building because of the gore on top of gore with a side of gore.
I know things like this come with extreme horror but it can be done so that it doesn't feel like everything is there for the sake of shocking over and over, because after a while it just stops shocking you and then everything falls apart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Also necrophilia as a tw

cheeserue's review against another edition

dark 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? No

hello, fbi? this one right here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail