Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

36 reviews

kalira's review against another edition

dark slow-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

1.75

This is very deeply grungy '90s horror, which despite the lavishly (lovingly, one might say) described . . . everything - horror, blood, injury, drugs (so, so many drugs), abuse, rape, nightmares, murder, and so on - within its pages . . . nothing of that feels terribly present. At least for me, most of it was at most disturbing of the cringe and blegh stripe if anything, not the kind of horror that makes an impression or lingers.

I've seen a number of people say they might have liked this book if they'd read it as a teenager, or similar; someone else commented that 30 is too old to start reading Poppy Brite. I'm in my 30s and I can fairly confidently say that I wouldn't have enjoyed this as a teenager either . . . and the heavy content might have been enough to screw with my head more than it did reading it now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Suicide, and Terminal illness

loz_ange's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

laluquev's review against another edition

I’m usually someone who can handle a lot in books, but the amount of incest, pedophilia and rape made me have to stop as it felt like every page was worse just because it could be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Toxic friendship

jackalopecore's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Rape and Medical trauma

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

st_lovecore's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Rape

Moderate: Racial slurs

sofipitch's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.0

I did not like this book. Half of the reason is the long list of trigger warnings I've marked below. The other half is the fact that whenever the author mentioned adult content such as sex/alcohol/drugs, it's done in such excess it seems juvenile. Just the way alcohol is described, I was REALLY surprised that the author was over 21 when this was published because it feels like it was written by a teen who has never experienced most of the things described. The book also has practically no plot, it just follows these characters around but I didn't like them. I peaked at reviews online with ppl raving about this book saying it had wonderful characters and a fast-paced well thought out plot. Like did we even read the same book?

There are also a lot of things about this book that it's less upfront about that haven't aged well, for example this book has really racist undertones, between the way it described POC, historical events, and use of the n-word. Same goes for misogyny. There's also some eating disorders thinking in the way thin bodies, constantly described with bones showing, are overly romanticized, which is why I marked eating disorder under triggers, bc the language in this book might give an impressionable goth teen one. So anything that was a triggering undertone went into the minor trigger category

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism

abbi00's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Self harm

herelieshenry's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol

acoffeeshopwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Miscarriage, Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, and Blood

highkingmargo's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

great if you like grimdark, atmospheric punkgoth navelgazing horror but it's seriously not for everyone. the content warnings will contain spoilers, but better safe than sorry.

if you like darkfic and nasty grungy bisexual disaster vampires though, give this a try.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Incest, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, and Murder