Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix

4 reviews

ruthmoog's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

4.75

This gave me chills. Once I was invested I whizzed through the story, whisked up by the relentless challenge to overcome the vampiric.

The group use their women's work skills to fight, but this was a bit cliché for me - and you could play content warning bingo with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Sexism, Stalking, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: War, Abandonment, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident

Nazism

cozyteareads's review

I really enjoyed this book to start but it just got a little bit intense with some aspects that I believe would be considered gaslighting and abuse partway through, and I wasn’t able to get through those sections. They lasted longer than I expected and too long for me to power through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Gore, Child death, Suicide, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Murder, Racism, Cursing, Death of parent, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Injury/injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Car accident

A lot of Bible talk and discussion

delilahreads's review against another edition

dark

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal death, Biphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Minor: Suicide, Pregnancy, Murder, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Car accident

ricareviews's review

sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

I finally finished it! It took me a whole month, but I somehow did it. I wanted this book to be campy, exciting, and entertaining. It was everything but that. I got a mixture of everything I despise in a book: one-dimensional characters, weird pacing, boring plot, and prose that is too descriptive. A lot of scenes just made my heart boil. There was no reason to include them because they served no purpose to the story - at least that's how I see it. The book's aim to be disgusting and vomit-inducing was accomplished, but at what cost? I could have lived without having read this and I wouldn't have regretted it one bit. Perhaps the greatest sin this book committed was that of being forgettable and ultimately really dull.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Dementia, Excrement, Medical content, and Vomit