Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

109 reviews

popsicleplease's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Body horror, Death, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Car accident

noemi_qu's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Body horror, Torture, Lesbophobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Car accident

jolea_is_awesome's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Religious bigotry

aubdotcom's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

My book of the year pick!! This was so good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Violence, and Gore

flyingryndeer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Suicide

displacedcactus's review

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

Tingle is a good but not great writer. There were some really great descriptions and turn of phrase in this book, and then some that were almost amateurishly bad. Over all, though, I did enjoy reading it and I think Tingle has a lot of promise to write these more mainstream horror novels alongside his "Tinglers". I especially think he did a good job of sensitively handling the issue of becoming disillusioned with the religion you grew up in, and I like that we got to see how two different characters experienced that, so people could see there's no wrong way to be "exvangelical."

This is a horror book and it does have some gross and scary moments, but there's also a lot of downtime for character development and problem solving, so it's not a tense, nail-biter kind of read. I could definitely see Chuck going in the direction of my favorite author T. Kingfisher, who anchors her horror with these really loveable characters and the sense that everything is going to turn out alright, even if you have to go through hell to get there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Cursing

Lots of insect/bug/worm content here.

kurumipanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Homophobia, Car accident, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture

sebrittainclark's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Religious bigotry

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Body horror

Moderate: Car accident, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

sarahtoepfer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry