bowlingforboots's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence
Minor: Drug abuse
spacemonkey25's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gore, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Blood
Moderate: Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Gun violence
Minor: Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Cancer
kermit_the_wrong's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Addiction, Blood, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Body horror
x_spookybooks_x's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Suicide attempt, and Violence
Moderate: Blood
danidamico's review against another edition
3.5
La escritura está muy bien, no me resultó forzada, aunque sí me faltó más particularización; a veces las cosas se sentían bastante genéricas y caían en ciertos lugares comunes. También me hubiese gustado que los personajes estuvieran un poco más desarrollados, poder conectar más con lo que les estaba pasando. Lo sentí todo algo distante. Pero en términos generales me pareció un relato decente para mechar entre libros más largos.
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence
marykendrick666_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Gore, Addiction, Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
madarauchiha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
What I expected. Reddit nosleep creepypasta levels of writing exploiting a suicidal man's death, with all the gimmicks and tropes well retread, written mainly to say 'first!' when it comes to a horror story about this dead man.
What I got. A delve into midwestern small town early 90s 00s depression fueled ableism towards mental illness and toxic masculinity, bootstrap mentality, and oh yeah, suicide horror. IS that a genre, suicide horror? I guess it'd fall under paranormal. Ringu was suicide horror, to a degree, innit desu? Let's call it suicide horror, a sub sub sub to the etc degree genre of paranormal horror.
Anyways, yeah it deserves the 4 star rating [as of writing this]. It's creepy, horrific, graphic, there's depth to it so you're thinking about it long after finishing, and it hits all the neat horror tropes but in a well done way. If you can handle suicide and child death, give it a go.
major addiction, asphyxiation, child death, gore, gun violence, psychosis, suicide
medium alcoholism, cancer, classism,
minor addiction, car crash, drug use marijuana and prescription drugs, gore, parental death, religion christianity?, religious bigotry, sexism, sexual content, usa 9/11 event, vomit
Graphic: Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Addiction, Child death, and Gore
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, and Vomit