Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

57 reviews

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

maudesmeeiris's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Minor: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

lela's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

Interesting concept but the characters/relationships were a bit flat for a stream of consciousness novella. I feel like most of what I will take away is just about content moderators and not the actual plot/characters....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

phantompansy's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, and Vomit

scheller_bg31's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

loongbooy's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Suicide, and Stalking

westcdf's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

4.0

This book was really good, it has a very shocking ending. I will say that I didn't particularly love the narrating style, it felt a little gimmicky. I do think the overall plot was excellent and the development of the characters was great. Made me feel queasy after I read it. Check the TWs for sure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

A very triggering read. The content they discuss moderating is somewhat disturbing. Plot contains clear sexual abuse.

molliundera_'s review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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

0.25

Literally nothing like I was expecting? This turned into a book about a toxic relationship pretty much. Yes I get the point that the images they were seeing at work was what was making them mentally ill and toxic, but the focus was on a romantic relationship, not even really on individual mental health. The ending was awful. And also the fact this was supposed to be written as a letter to a lawyer was completely irrelevant and unnecessary. 
That’s not even mentioning the unnecessary homophobia, racism, antisemitism, and fat phobia. Slurs and conversation of these topics were played off as a joke at first, then by the end were cemented as actual beliefs several characters held. 
It has a pretty cover. Literally the only good thing I can say. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail