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We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

85 reviews

elderwoodreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Really surprised by the low ratings this book has, I think more people wanted to be voyeurs to this occupation than read about the impacts of it. This is going to stick with me for a while. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Antisemitism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Stalking

Minor: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

ewwa18's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Antisemitism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual violence

theprinceofdenmark's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

this is a morality play about how the Internet is bad. the thesis of this is apparently

seeing disturbing content on facebook makes you into a rapist.

befuddling to say the least!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Injury/Injury detail

woodiefrog's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad 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? Yes

3.25

A strange book, maybe not correctly categorized. I think it’s more of a psychological thriller with

lesbian romance B plot that ends up totalling A plot

😂 

At various points in reading I started to wonder if we are perhaps taking on the role of the voyeur like in-story interlopers, so eager to hear the gruesome bits of somebody’s life revealed to us (and disappointed when it’s not how we think it’s going, as many other readers here echo in their reviews). And if we are perhaps supposed to be aware of this fact.  If the writer was intentional on this point, I applaud her. Clearly it worked. On the other hand, however, the story does feel derailed by the problematic relationship (which I enjoyed; let there be more portrayals of all relationships, toxicity is not exclusive to heteronormativity and we need more affirmation on that in our media), and the premise that starts the intrigue went absolutely nowhere. Overall, a good quick read with unexplored potential.

Did you know some 14% Americans reportedly have sex in their workplace? I did not. But thanks to some stuff in this book I did a very quick and inconclusive research on Google, and now you know too 🙃

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bookbird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

echo_chamber's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Fatphobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

rowanelisa's review against another edition

challenging 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

verilystilt's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

izypup's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

While there is a lot of content warnings for this book, it’s a lot less graphic than what it seems to be made out to be when I saw reviews. It is primarily an insight on the effects of being desensitized/over-exposed to disturbing media online than about discussing the disturbing media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

kproc381's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.25

I hate to say it, I didn’t love this book. I found some parts engaging but others a bit boring. It felt like a black mirror episode that was thrown out because it lost its original plot. I would have loved for them to go deeper about the harm the company causes the employees, instead we spent too much time on a toxic relationship. It had the outline to be great… but was not. The harmful language also did not do anything for the book. It was just for shock value.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, and Antisemitism