Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Abuse of Ashley Collins by Jon Athan

5 reviews

nicolecoyle's review

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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Excrement, and Death of parent

janachigo's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

booksandgore's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

shiv91's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

As expected, a very messed up book which shows how generations can continue doing something, even though it's wrong, just because "the same happened to me so it makes sense to continue this depravity" schtick. 

My own gripes with this are pretty much things that have been mentioned in other reviews of this book.

Understandably, with a short book you can only give so much background information but this really went from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye. 

Then physically/medically there was a moment with the father and Ashlee where he forces her to eat some condoms and she doesn't choke (she did choke but seemingly only on the first one then managed fine?) and she also doesn't end up with some sort or obstruction or severe infection from the foreign bodies on her system.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Blood

bybookandbone's review

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

1.5

ooof this is not good imo.

It's not that I don't find the circumstances or actions within the book unbelievable, I don't find that the characters themselves are believable. They just perform very violent depraved acts out of almost no where. Ashley is difficult due to

sexual abuse by her uncle (not in the story), that is disbelieved by her mom

. This isn't dived into... it's just an explanation for her teenage difficulties. 

Why is Calvin's b-plot in this? Not only is it not really resolved but it also isn't believable in that short a time span. I thought there would be a sort of 'damage done to the non-abused child', which sort of happens but just isn't written well. 

The ending is also very poorly thought out. People don't just do those things, even when they've been abused. 
Honestly, this is just torture porn. 
Very violent stories can be done well but the violence isn't meant to be the story. It should just part of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Incest and Sexual content

Minor: Misogyny