Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

33 reviews

nemann19's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

This book was extremely perverted - not groundbreaking, daring, or any other adjective that could describe a decent work of fiction. It was beyond disturbing and nauseating, but not in the way you hope a horror book will be. This is the darkest and most vile form of humanity put into a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

legitimatesalvage's review against another edition

Fucking nope. I recommend this to literally no one. Shameless edgelord bullshit.  Avoid at all costs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Cannibalism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, and Abortion

downcircles's review against another edition

dark fast-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

3.75

Don't get me wrong the graphic stuff is VERY grossly graphic and I understandably felt very gross to read. I got this book out of curiosity as I'm exploring darker horror and splatter punk. I did not expect to love the writing style. It takes a certain amount of talent to be able to both describe the most abhorrent graphic shit AND the inner monologue of a horrible guy. Pleasently surprised that there was less gore than I'd expected and more of an interesting exploration of the mind of someone who can commit such awful acts. As is intended by the author the book is very over the top almost cartoonishly so and I do think that is acknowledged in the text. I did not enjoy the moment of "seriously this is your trigger warning" however as it didn't fit the flow. Honestly curious to read other Chandler Morrison works to see what he does with his writing skills. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Abortion, and Murder

perth_is's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

i ended up actually really liking this. if you’re looking for splatterpunk, grossness. this book is for you. cannibalism and necrophilia (why isn’t there a content warning for that??) I was uncomfortable but I really liked it! also that twist??

i can’t in good conscious give it any higher but just know that it is actually pretty good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

doucemai's review against another edition

ummmm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

queenbunnidala'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? It's complicated

2.0

Enjoyed the inner monologue and turmoil our main character goes through. Could have been good if he didn't push heavy into the edgy "I fuck dead girls" line every chance he could. Started off real strong, didn't end awful but ended as expected. 

he fucks a fetus, I didn't read the heavy details because wow that's uncomfortable but it was an unnecessary thing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

bccorrea's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

When people warn you that this book is disgusting and vile. They are not joking. I read the whole book with my jaw on the floor and horrified. It's a good read that I'll never read again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

adelinekramer's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.75

The writing is beautiful. But really read the trigger warning before. I already knew what I was going into.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

miarosefox's review against another edition

dark

picked this up because a youtuber recommended it and said it was super extreme. it was certainly gross! gratuitously so! no point to it at all! the incel writing style made this a hard one to get through but it’s so short that i trudged through. even if it’s splatterpunk satire, the “i’m edgy and different” vibes were too much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abortion, and Murder

bookdeviant86's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Unless you are a a real extreme horror fan do not read. This is one of my favorite books but please keep in mind that something is me is broken and I haven't found a book yet that is a deal breaker yet.