Reviews tagging 'Blood'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

93 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

chrishham's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Violence, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Blood

maryfranvs's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

keekalee's review against another edition

dark reflective 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? Yes

4.5

i really liked this book, i'm so surprised by the reviews! personally, i don't mind an open ending and don't necessarily think it should have been wrapped up neatly. i also think it made sense for the main character and underscored how deeply her actions were impacted by the work she did (

having been confronted with her own acts of abuse against sigrid, kayleigh comes up with a "noble" gesture to make it up to her - going to the home of a young girl who had died by suicide, and whose video of self-harm had been reviewed by sigrid, and asking the parents to absolve sigrid of her inaction. kayleigh, unaware and delusional as ever, breaks in when she realizes they're not home. it's not until the end, when she's made her way to the girl's bedroom and hears the girls parents come home, that she has a moment of lucidity and asks herself what the hell she's doing.

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i think it succeeded in showing and exploring how constantly being exposed to disturbing content and acting as the judge of what is acceptable impacts the characters' sense of morality - they're so desensitized to what they see, and so used to permitting offensive content, that they don't seem to recognize when they're enacting harm on others.
i can understand wishing the characters and story were more fleshed out, but i kind of liked how it felt like briefly peering into this secret world that none of us have access to - the format of it being written as a letter worked very well for this reason imo.
overall, i definitely recommend - read in two days and got me out of a reading slump! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Blood

michachi's review against another edition

dark medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault

biblionam's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.5

The concept was so interesting. That was what made the book redeemable for me a bit. I understand that the author was trying to portray the harmful effects of such a job. However, this was not done well. I found it terribly hard to care about any of the characters because I hardly felt like I knew who any of them were. They weren’t flushed out well (to be fair though, this was a very short book). Some pieces felt unnecessarily convoluted and the ending was just… what? It wasn’t poetic or hard hitting, even with some reflection.. It just felt like a chunk of the book was missing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

kelsey_eden's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia

pabi's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Very abrupt ending. I definitely think more things could have been elaborated on and more details about the job could have been exposed. It was a gripping story but ultimately let me down.

ps. I wish I could read the book in its original language.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

fynn_jls's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual assault, Stalking, and War

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Blood, and Vomit