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Woom: An Extreme Psychological Horror Novel by Duncan Ralston

50 reviews

triple_m's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

1.0

Let’s start with my biggest gripe—this white author uses the n word twice. The book is not about racism and the word is used as throwaway derogatory remarks. Unnecessary and unacceptable.

The gore and the horror of this book mostly involves the female anatomy in ways that are completely not possible in real life. Maybe I’m foolish but I need a level of realism in my horror stories. Another reviewer wrote that it was “so far fetched it’s comical” and I agree.

Many of the stories are told from the female perspective and holy shit I’m so tired of extreme horror authors who CANNOT write good female characters AT ALL.

The stories were gross, as promised, but that’s about all there was going for it. The only reason I finished the book is because it’s extremely short and I wanted to give a fair review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Gore, and Abortion

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Racial slurs

quartz's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Gore, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Racial slurs

necroplasm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

the absolute definition of "sexual but not sexy"........ still thinkin about that ending what the fuck man

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

cursivewolf's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Had a mix of humor and horror. I had to put the book down at one chapter, which was arguably worse than the others (aside from the ending). You definitely need a strong stomach for this one, but it wasn’t as horrific as I thought (still VERY horrific, though.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Abortion, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Racial slurs, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

sugarmountain's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

shit was mid tbh 🥱

edit: you know what. im coming back to this to speak on it. its a gross out shock horror book; hardly scary, mostly just bleh. however, looking back at the plot - there is one, surprisingly - i feel like there is an underlying theme here and its easily the most reprehensible part of the book. main character is such a poor little lad, look how much he's suffered - he's super traumatized and mentally ill!

so he rapes an innocent woman, and she pities him for it.

. sure, its just a story, but are we supposed to empathize with it? with him? what exactly is the idea here? we all saw the ending coming,

although i expected the woman to be consenting to the matter (thought they make take the route of 'we've become mutually enlightened'), and was pretty disappointed to see the rape route taken just for the sake of shocking the readers. ok, so youve written a story where a traumatized man re-traumatizes a woman after she opens up to him. great. hurt people hurt people. soooo deep and edgy. but then she feels bad for him, she wants to take care of him? the woman is violated and subsequently forced into a position where her assailant is now dependent on her, a literal manchild, and she agrees to this, because... maternal urges? we're not given a reason for why anyone would consent to that. what the fuck?

it should go without saying that this book lacks nuance and does zero introspection. it has no commentary to make on the issues it depicts (unless you count a white author using the nword several times in his shitty horror book which... ehhh). 

i should specify i went into this knowing exactly what it was and got what i expected. i dont give a fuck about cancel culture. this isnt a concern so much as an observation. i do stand by my point that you can't call it a horror book if it isn't scary, and copious amounts of shit does not equal scary. well, nah, it does. but in a book... not so much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Excrement

Minor: Racial slurs

perplexed's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

So I did mostly enjoy Woom, I think. There were 100% a couple of absolutely toe curling moments, but, I think I may have been reading too much splatter punk recently because nothing came as *super* shocking. 

There was a slight twist (more of a reveal) that worked really well, but I did find a fair few of the stories to be a little predictable. 

Also shout out to Shyla, the plus sized prostitute who is apparently colour blind cause girl those flags you were missing? They were red as heck yo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Please don't read this unless you've got a strong stomach omg

kenzielireads's review against another edition

dark fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Extreme horror

dromedaryreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I really enjoy how creative this idea is, even when it's kind of gross. I was able to finish it in one sitting and it's definitely not boring. The end was a shock for sure and I can certainly say I haven't seen anything like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Abortion

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Excrement, and Vomit

Minor: Racial slurs

gxsobes's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body shaming, Racial slurs, and Suicide