Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich

3 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