Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

18 reviews

heartachesbi's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Vomit, Torture, and Excrement

cassie7e's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

3 stars (Rating might be higher if I was a regular horror/slasher fan)

I very much prefer psychological or gothic thrillers to the pure horror genre, and didn't quite know what I was getting into with this one. On top of that, this book is one massive example of the Trolley Problem, except that it's unclear if the consequences are real. The book does a great job of lending credibility to both possibilities and favoring neither. But gives hs absolutely no reason why the predicament exists in the first place or why the solutions would solve it. Felt very shallow and I didn't really care what happened to the characters besides Wen. The ending was not very satisfying to me and normally I don't mind open endings. Perhaps all this is why I didn't find all the violence and threats compelling. But also pleasant to read a story with normalized queer rep.

I strongly disliked Amy Landon's narration performance. Dialogue sounded stilted and over-voiced, over-serious, over-monotonous. Some of this was her struggling to do male voices, but some of this was a strange tone used for the whole text. This is not a book to listen to on audio for this reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Murder, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Hate crime

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Torture

_morgreads's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cursing, Gun violence, Body horror, Child death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Violence, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Blood, Torture, and Vomit

spaceykate's review

dark 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? No

1.0

honestly i fucking hated this book. nonsensical killing, bizarre author notes that make me think too many people were given participation awards as young children who should've been told to stop being so psychopathic instead (

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who the fuck says they wanted to make sure when they shot a child in the face they didn't want to make it an emotional highkey moment? a legit psychopath. sick in the head.

), and pages and pages of background / environmental descriptors that made me flash back to skipping like 40 pages of frankenstein because it's was just all. descriptions. of. landscape. i don't need to know about the wood of the floor. i don't need to know about the blanket they brought from home, especially since it CLEARLY doesn't hold significance to the characters in its use. even the whole

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four horsemen shirt colors and relatedish plagues

felt cheaply done, like paint on a pig. the only thing i liked in the entire thing was a fucking side note the author made:

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the yellow lamp running bit

. made me sick to read it, because it really channeled this vibe that the author has no value of human life and that's yeah pretty sickening. but great read if you like that sort of thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Murder, Death, and Blood

Minor: Homophobia, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, and Hate crime

physicalsecrets's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Vomit, Confinement, Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child death, Excrement, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Death, and Torture

kelsywild's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Death, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Suicide, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Gaslighting, Cursing, Grief, and Child death

soraydiant's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Blood, Child death, Violence, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Religious bigotry

dreamy_demon's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Child death, Homophobia, and Suicide

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Gore, Hate crime, and Torture

fanabana's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Gore, Blood, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Homophobia

mousey's review

adventurous reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A really tense and interesting read. The ambiguity of the circumstances the characters are stuck in makes you unsure of who to root for, of who is right and who is wrong, but that makes it all the more engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Cursing, and Death