Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

11 reviews

_sappho_wannabe's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

the most disturbing book i’ve ever and might ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Self harm, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Homophobia

erinxmegan's review against another edition

Poorly written and boring. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Homophobia

vezreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I loved the plot. I loved the witch, super creepy and the ending was really good. But the pervasive misogyny was really hard to read and made my enjoyment of this book really falter.  Also the author loooved talking about nipples. They were mentioned as often as possible and completely unnecessarily. The phrase "something went click in his mind" or some variation of that was used at least 4 times, which is 3 times too many as far as I'm concerned.
But like I said the plot was really good so I had to give this book a few stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal death, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual violence

virgilsinferno's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Islamophobia and Homophobia

If suicide is at all an issue for you to read about, do not read this book. Seriously. Do not.

postmortem's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Sexual assault, Body horror, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol

kt2e56's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.0

One of the more fucked up books I’ve read in awhile. There’s a dark sense of humor here mixed in with a macabre, gruesome fairytale that feels oddly fitting in today’s climate with Puritan “Christian” values and fascism on the rise hand in hand with a fear of the “other.”

I definitely recommend this one but agree with others about the bizarre fixation on nipples.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

enderbug's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm, Gore, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Islamophobia, Rape, and Homophobia

graceflvnt's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

3.25

Author sure does love to talk about nipples. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Animal death

Moderate: Gore and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Ableism

coleyglasses's review

challenging dark medium-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

1.5

The concept for this book was fantastic but the ultimate execution was very much lacking, especially in the back half of the book. 
Additionally

Way too much nipple torture and very poorly written female characters

Made for an uncomfortable read at times and not in the good way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

cryptogay's review

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Really incredible, very creepy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Colonisation, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Medical content