Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

34 reviews

kerriski's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

librayrian's review against another edition

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

1.0

what a disappointing ending and wasted potential of a plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Gun violence and Self harm

withlivjones's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

An interesting look at content moderators who review the worst things people put onto the internet, and how becoming desensitised to such content might affect their own sense of morality. The concept was super intriguing but the execution felt very rushed. There were a lot of different topics and themes covered that could have had more time spent on them, and the open ending felt anticlimactic and unfinished, like the author just didn’t know how to end the book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenhill2142's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sydapel'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Deeply disturbing and thought provoking book about work culture and the dangers of our long term exposure and addiction to the internet, especially as it pertains to radicalization and conspiracy thought.  I could easily see this as a Black Mirror episode! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Self harm, and Sexual content

imaginesysiphus's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

4.0

Better than I expected. A short punchy read, even if less about content moderation ans more about the effects of it on people. Super dark and interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Murder, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lily_peach's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

sarah984's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

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

3.0

Blistering little novel about being a content moderator for a major social media platform. The workplace environment felt realistic to me, and the way the characters spiral into strange behaviours because of what they're seeing every day make sense to me (especially the way they find themselves talking about real world scenarios as if they're videos they're watching for work).

I docked a star because I think the ending was a bit silly - it would have been stronger ending on the parking lot scene with the phone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, Islamophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

cady_sass's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This is a fascinating topic but the execution is just okay. The author ends the book by stating clearly that while the novel is entirely fictional, the similarities to actual happenings is on purpose and goes on to list many, many sources about real life content moderators and legal action taken against Facebook. Unfortunately, I feel that those articles would be more interesting. The entire premise revolves around the idea that our main protagonist does not want any involvement in legal action against her former employer and promises the reader we will come to understand why. Well, I don’t. I think you just wrote 100 pages about getting dumped while you worked a shitty job. 

If this is supposed to be horror, it didn’t go far enough. If this is supposed to be social commentary, it’s too weird and the focus is placed on the wrong parts of the story. In my humble opinion this could’ve used another 100 or so pages and have one of the characters really, truly fall off their rocker.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail