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We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

56 reviews

trippalli'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? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

It's a challenging book full of awful things happening on the Internet and the witness stress of those paid to review flagged posts and the hardships of that job, their coping.... Their fallout of beliefs from flat Earth to denying the Holocaust, the tiers of what most need taken down and what isn't is hard, the hopefully things they see, some described, is really hard to hear. Especially a young girl cutting her face before killing herself.. And how they take the cutting post down and find out about her suicide later because they can't stop thinking about the girl and remember her real name and investigate. Along in the story is the narrator trying to have a relationship with her girlfriend that goes through it's own hardships in parallel to the harshness of this job both women and their friends work at.

It's well written but full of so many trigger flags, most of not all of them.

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alisonlev's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

This is a super uncomfortable read and then it just ends. The conflict we start with and the conflict we end with could be two different books entirely, and neither is resolved.

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stareaten's review against another edition

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dark sad medium-paced

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

2.25

the thing about this is, this was advertised to me as a fucked up horror, so i spent a good portion of this book waiting for something vaguely paranormal to happen. but as it turns out, it is an exploration of the effect which longer exposure to virtual violence might have on our psyche as well as a short look into unhealthy relationships. so I definitely was not prepared for this type of story and for me it was just depressive, i feel like some depictions of violence were unnecessary and thrown in for shock value, and the ending kind of felt abrupt. i usually love it when stories don't spell out everything for us and make us connect some things on our own, but this one felt like the whole fuss at the beginning was too much and the lawsuit was actually not connected to what the protagonist did. that being said, it is apparently based on real things that happened in similar work places and i don't want to go into spoilers so i just want to say if you want a story about how bleak people can get when exposed to terrible environment, this is a good meditative piece.

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gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

A pretty heavy read. I think it’s a good narrative on how what we see online really affects our behaviour in real life, hence we see how some of the characters change throughout the course of the book. It’s a short read - read it in a hour and a half. I would have liked a bit more exploration on the topic personally - because it’s so short I don’t think it’s as in depth as it could have been, but still a decent read.

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