Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

48 reviews

katereadshorror's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

1.5

This was a really sick book.  I can't even. I would say this is dark horror for more tenured horror readers for sure. 
You read this and you can't help but wonder if there really is people like this out there.
If you want to test your limits by all means !!! Dive in !!! :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Mental illness, Gore, Death, Sexual violence, Abortion, Child death, Rape, and Cannibalism

peachieko's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

This book was so full of itself 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Body shaming, Incest, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Cursing, Medical content, Rape, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Addiction, Death, Excrement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent

saybrina's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Self harm, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Gore, Gun violence, Drug use, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Murder, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

dreamyari's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.5

content warnings: necrophilia, rape, cannibalism, child death, animal death, gore, drug abuse, body horror, misogyny, self harm, miscarriage, abortion 

this is just like. shock factor porn for edgy incels. i wanted it to be more because i’m so desensitised and want something that will make me recoil and uncomfortable, and while the subject matter itself is enough to do that the writing is just so.. cringey? (“so I figured I’d bite the bullet and just do it, Nike-style” LIKE CMON) and i hate that word. i don’t know. this could have been so fucked up and engaging but instead it was just fucked up and embarrassing. so many of the positive reviews for this book stem from ‘well it’s fucked up and appalling because that’s the point!’ yes we know, but that doesn’t mean we don’t also deserve good writing and an actual plot over just the same gore porn for however many pages. extreme horror can be good! this is unfortunately not an example of that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Drug use, Misogyny, Abortion, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Blood, Child death, Pregnancy, Self harm, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Addiction, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Gore, and Rape

kristinawidda_k's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

stars_are_weird's review against another edition

Graphic and gross

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Cannibalism, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Child death

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

A lot of necrophilia.

thee_neohasidist's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

I’d heard a lot of great things about this book, so I ended up giving it a shot. Once you get past the edgelord bullshit, it reads like an ultraviolent satire on normalcy, addiction, and the futile desire to be “unique.” There’s only one particular section I… skipped… but I could feel it was probably coming and was on the lookout for it.  I only have a handful of “hard limits”, but this book managed to hit one or two of them. 

Overall, trying to be as objective as possible, I think it was mediocre, edging on bad. Could do without  the Try-Hard edginess, but I think there actually *was* a decent, intriguing love story hidden inside the shock value. I would not recommend this book to any other living soul. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Pedophilia, Child death, Pregnancy, Rape, and Suicide

darrow69's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Gore, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

muldxr's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Gore, and Blood

scaredy_toad's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Somehow I’m more upset by the MC’s “I’m not like other girls” vibe, throwing fits when called normal or told he still unfortunately is a part of society than by his nefarious deeds.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Body horror, Abortion, Murder, Miscarriage, Gore, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Medical content, Sexual content, Infidelity, Death, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Addiction

Moderate: Car accident, Infidelity, Death of parent, Cursing, and Fatphobia