Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich

4 reviews

paperknotbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This book feels like a series of Polaroid pics of dingy, triply scenes. There’s a lot of sucking of miscellaneous fluids from various orifices… mostly human and animal, occasionally inanimate objects. A lot of decomposition and sexual situations, which basically blend together.

While gross, the writing is engaging. I didn’t like this book for 98% of it, when I finally clicked as to what it was trying to do. I had an “oh!” moment. But I never wasn’t to reread this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

discoseamonster's review

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.5

As a novel: 1 star, a nightmarishly convoluted mess of unlinked ideas and nonsense.
As an audiobook, listened to like an unhinged women's rambling of poetry and prose with occasional flashes of beautiful genius: 3.5 stars
Props to Angela Goethals narration

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

mcdal's review

Reading this gave me the same feeling I had when watching the movie Limbo (1999) and I mean that in the best way and worst way possible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Vomit, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, and Abortion

alli324b21's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I picked this up because the blurb on the back - “like something you read in the underside of a freeway overpass” - reminded me of Alice Isn’t Dead. 

It was dark and disjointed. It definitely felt like a fever dream.  I know people like this girl; not vampires (are there even vampires, really?), but people that seem to be stumbling blearily from hangover to near death encounter and back again. The whole book feels hazy and desolate. 

I wished for MORE from the book. I guess more answers, but that’s not the point. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence