Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez

7 reviews

archaicrobin's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Every summer I like to read a slasher for Summerween season and this year o finally read Camp slaughter.  As the title suggests, this one is gorey, gruesome, and has a low survival rate for its characters.

I love summer slashers so this was a fun one that actually had characters with some background development, still minimal, but a lot for a slasher. 

I think the only thing that bothered me with this one was how fast some of the characters died. We spent the majority of the book with these characters and for them all to die with most only getting a paragraph was rough for me.  Also, a lot of the characters made very poor, very stupid decisions, or had no reactions at all making them super easy to kill. I get this is a slasher with dumb teens but at times it felt the decisions were just a little too stupid. 

Despite my one issue I still greatly enjoyed this one, and loved the supernatural aspect that was interwoven with the slasher. I’m excited to see what happens in the next book in this series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

all_things_books21's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Going into this book, I definitely expected blood and gore due to the title of the book, however there were somethings that definitely shocked me. The book was definitely more graphic and darker then I expected. Regardless, I actually really enjoyed this book and definitely can’t wait to read book two. 

While I did really enjoy this book, I did find myself confused in the beginning. Each chapter was about a new set of characters, with no connection to the previous ones. After a few chapters however, the old characters made appearances and the story made a lot more sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

dolores_lola's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

amweber's review against another edition

All of the female characters had a bad case of women written by men syndrome, even in the short amount of time I spent reading the book. I got nearly a quarter way through and every character felt so wooden, in addition to a random acephobic comment thrown in, so I just decided to give up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Murder

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

readsbyhope's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Murder

luisaveras's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.0

A easy to read, fun slasher! 

Paced just like a horror movie. We start with a scare and move on to a new group about to have a bad time. The killer is built with trauma, some un-natural traits and it's mysteries. The "victims" are not developed much and make "dumb" decisions that will frustrate you, but some are kind folk I would have liked to spend more time with. I do think a bit of the supernatural talk was not needed, but did not bother. The setting is great as we are in the fresh and green woods that is suddenly very scary to move around. And of course, you got gory kills!

Ready for the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Cannibalism

Minor: Vomit and Car accident

cyanide_latte's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Cannibalism

Not one I would easily recommend, mostly due to the fact that I get the feeling other people would be very unsatisfied with the amount of things left unresolved and what little explanation we get for a lot of the content within by the end of the book. All I can say for now is that I really hope the author releases another installment in the story of this particular slasher, and I think fans of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th franchises will enjoy this one.