Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

13 reviews

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

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

chloseencounter's review against another edition

First book I’ve ever DNF. I’m on an extreme horror kick currently so I wanted to give this a try but almost halfway through this book I still felt as if it was written by an edgy teenage boy.

It seems like reviews are either “this is the worst book I ever read, I love it.” or “this is the worst book I ever read, I hate it”, but all the good reviews have no commentary about the actual substance of the book, they’re all just “well that was gross.” I understand feeling as if a book must be good because it gave you a visceral reaction but l personally need a little bit of substance with my violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Gore, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Child death, Sexual assault, and Cannibalism

zeegy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I'm shocked by how much i ended up liking this. it was intriguing as it was disgusting I couldn't put the book down and the way it's narrated in this almost comedic fashion is jarring yet compelling 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Excrement, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

necrophilia and cannibalism specifically of babies

they end up having sex while Helen is eating a baby and then afterwards fucking the corpse of a baby and it's truly vile

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

Nope nope nope.
Horrible book. Fucked up. Clearly written by a man, the personality of the main character is cringe and annoying. 
I've been super into horror lately but this is just mindless fucked up. First DNF of my reading stint this year. No thank you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Abortion, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Rape, Torture, Sexual content, Violence, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Medical content, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent

nicole_cob_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Sexism, Blood, Child death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Gore, Medical trauma, Rape, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, and Violence

teaforazathoth's review against another edition

Yes, it was gross. I was prepared it to be gross. But I didn't find any reason for the grosness, no actual deep point that justifies it and my continuation of reading it. 
If there's some clever ending, I won't know. And I doubt it would be worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

badbitchwithabook's review against another edition

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

4.0

“And even with your fucked-up face—especially with your fucked-up face—you’ll still be beautiful to me.”

Don’t mistake this quote as being a part of a beautiful, romantic love story. It’s not. But underneath the shocking, distressing and disturbing story that this is, there is a twisted love story of sorts.

I’ve been mulling over this review for about a week and am still unsure of what to even write. This story really traumatised me, I don’t even know if I can recommend this book purely out of guilt for potentially upsetting someone deeply.

I’m going to begin by saying this book is highly, highly disturbing, not like anything I’ve ever read or even heard of. 
I cannot stress enough to read with caution, this will severely upset the majority of people. I found myself struggling to finish it but also not being able to put it down, which was a the first time I’ve had a conflict like that when reading. At one point I felt guilty for reading this and enjoying it as much as I did. but I also hated it soooo… idk?

Moving on to what I enjoyed about this, the writing in this book is stunning, like absolutely incredible and I cannot help but give my respect to the author, Chandler, for having the balls to write something like this and then publish it and show the world. If you read this, you’ll understand the guts it must have took to put this story out, knowing it would upset so many people.

Chandler is an expert at building an atmosphere that makes you feel connected and immersed. This is a skill I really admire in all authors. There were points whilst reading when I found myself inside the main characters mind and was lost in his darkness and could feel the depravity of his existence, and although I hated every minute of feeling like that, I was blown away by the fact that the author succeeded in that while having the characters and their lives be SO unrelatable.

I want to recommend going into this story blind but at the same time part of me feels responsible to tell you everything that happens (haha), so as a happy medium, I’m going to try and give as many detailed content warnings as I can so you are as prepared as you can be picking this up.

CONTENT WARNINGS: (just assume that every warning is considered to be quite severe and detailed)

in no particular order
Death, child death, gore, necrophilia, body horror, rape, gang rape, abuse, drug use, abortion, mistreatment of a corpse, pedophilia, cannibalism, death of an animal (mentioned once but quite graphic), car accident, cheating, stillborn, miscarriage, murder, suicide, mental illness, mental disturbances.
I may have missed some warnings but the safe bet is to assume that whatever you’re thinking there’s a high possibility it’s in this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Animal death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

gabrielleclarke05's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Child death, Excrement, Racism, Sexism, Abortion, Alcohol, Death, Medical content, Sexual violence, Violence, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Infertility, Alcoholism, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Vomit, and Xenophobia

The most dumb, purposeless and exploitative book

guthr13's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault