Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Woom: An Extreme Psychological Horror Novel by Duncan Ralston

197 reviews

gabbygetsreading's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

seefoody's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.0

Splatterhorror. Predictable. Made me cringe and wonder what was wrong with me for reading it all the way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, and Abortion

bethanyjadereads's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

If you’re a fan of Chuck Palahniuk you’ll love this, quick and easy read with plenty of disturbing events. Could predict the ending very early on but that didn’t ruin it for me and found it quite funny.. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

steffy10816's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I think I need therapy after reading this. This was not what I expected extreme horror to be. Yes I expected it to be super messed up but I would consider this more psychological thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

miaesaram_03's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

This book is DISGUSTINGLY GOOD

greenclovers75's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

bubblebearcj's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Abortion

Minor: Blood

There is mutilation in this book

zephyrlestrange's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I was drawn in on the promise of Extreme Horror, having recently read The Ruins and enjoying Eric LaRocca’s work, I thought it would be somewhere amongst that realm. 

I feel like an attempt for splatterpunk was made but it just wasn’t that gruelling or terrorising - some of the plot points became extremely obvious very quickly which kind of detracted from the read. If you’re keen on gory horror this’ll tick some boxes but don’t let “extreme” be the sell point because it really wasn’t that bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse

brookes95's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

azulmuller's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

I went into reading this book completely blind. I knew I was reading horror and that’s it. Read the content warnings!! There were parts of the book that were very strong and alarming. I gave it 3.5 stars because the writing is really well done you want to keep reading and understanding the word choices. Again read the warnings! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, and Abandonment