marykendrick666_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Gore, Addiction, Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
masscrafter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Murder, Self harm, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, and Gore
madarauchiha's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
What I expected. Reddit nosleep creepypasta levels of writing exploiting a suicidal man's death, with all the gimmicks and tropes well retread, written mainly to say 'first!' when it comes to a horror story about this dead man.
What I got. A delve into midwestern small town early 90s 00s depression fueled ableism towards mental illness and toxic masculinity, bootstrap mentality, and oh yeah, suicide horror. IS that a genre, suicide horror? I guess it'd fall under paranormal. Ringu was suicide horror, to a degree, innit desu? Let's call it suicide horror, a sub sub sub to the etc degree genre of paranormal horror.
Anyways, yeah it deserves the 4 star rating [as of writing this]. It's creepy, horrific, graphic, there's depth to it so you're thinking about it long after finishing, and it hits all the neat horror tropes but in a well done way. If you can handle suicide and child death, give it a go.
major addiction, asphyxiation, child death, gore, gun violence, psychosis, suicide
medium alcoholism, cancer, classism,
minor addiction, car crash, drug use marijuana and prescription drugs, gore, parental death, religion christianity?, religious bigotry, sexism, sexual content, usa 9/11 event, vomit
Graphic: Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Addiction, Child death, and Gore
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, and Vomit
lagoonablu3's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
I definantly ended up pleasantly surprised. It's a really well written story and although it's not very fast paced, it's short enough that it doesn't really bother me. Although I wasn't around when Dwyer's suicide happened, I stumbled upon the video at a very young age, and was around when boys in my class would find it funny to randomly show you bestgore videos. I have bad intrusive thoughts and the images I saw never really left me and I still see them sometimes when I close my eyes.
Overall scanliners was short and quick, definantly worth the read.
Graphic: Suicide and Violence
Moderate: Addiction
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
j_reads_nightmares's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Addiction