Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson

8 reviews

bibarbie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

dreadspawn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

mhh831666's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

jess2obsess's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, and Outing

meowlo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual assault

sarahweyand's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Thanks to Tor Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing me a physical ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and feedback are my own. 

When I finished reading this book, I remember my resounding thoughts being "damn, that was really good". And I'm devastated to say that now, a week and a half later, I've totally lost the plot. This book slipped out of my memory so fast. So I'm docking a few fractions of a star for staying power, but I did really enjoy this while reading, so I'll do my best to recap.

This book has a hell of a plot. So many seemingly unrelated points come together at the end to form a cohesive timeline and structure, which I was very impressed with. I really did have no idea where Sharpson was taking us half the time, and I always enjoy that in a good horror. Some of the imagery, especially the children's TV show, the night on the farm, and what happens during the climax, were especially unsettling and vivid and well-written. Slow burn folklore horror is perhaps one of my favorite horror subgenres, and I loved the Celtic/Irish influence here.

If I'm remembering correctly, there are a couple of questions that I had that were left unanswered in a rather unsatisfying manner (specifically about what happened to Etain that night), but I don't have  many complaints. Definitely a good addition to any horror-lover's TBR.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia

sunshinestark's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

ouijabroad's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I read this book in less than a day because I couldn’t put it down! It deals a lot with Irish folklore which prior to my reading I wasn’t familiar with at all. Some things I struggled to understand due to this and had to reread a few things multiple times. No big deal, it didn’t take me out of the immersive story. This was truly unlike anything I have ever read before. I don’t want to say much about this novel as I feel like the synopsis from Nightfire is all you need and if that peaks your interested then I say dive right in! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Sexual assault