Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

8 reviews

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

What an eerie book. I was not expecting a horror that could, more or less, be real. I liked that aspect of it. I think that the jumping around in the timeline mostly works, but the sections where

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the main character spent time with Veronica and then she died, felt kind of random and disjointed compared to the rest of the story. I know it was to reconnect him to Josh but I just felt like she appeared out of nowhere just to die.

That said, I really enjoyed most of this book, and while I feel like I guessed a lot of what was going to happen, that didn't really ruin the experience of watching the mystery unfold. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Child death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Cursing, Animal death, and Bullying

ivymaew's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, and Dementia

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Murder, Violence, and Pedophilia

beanodie75's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

annamariereadshorror's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Child death, Animal death, Car accident, Death, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Dementia, Murder, Violence, and Medical trauma

Minor: Kidnapping

e_gracereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The blurb of this book states that “… by the end of it all, you will wish that you could forget what he never knew.” The blurb is fucking right. This was easily the most dread-inducing, genuinely terrifying horror that I’ve ever read. It didn’t need gore. It didn’t need shock value. It just needed these little breadcrumbs that slowly unravel… absolutely horrifying. Go into it cold, if you can, because it makes it that much worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Stalking, and Death

Minor: Violence

kermit_the_wrong's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

anne311's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

dannybrown59's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

3.5

This book was really creepy and while I had trouble getting into it I ended up enjoying it. I loved  how we discovered the truth along with the narrator I thought it could have been written a little better. Overall it left me unsettled and I definitely got the creepypasta vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Stalking, and Violence