Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez

11 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

brandis_busy_reading's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

This one frustrated me.. I don’t think I’ll be continuing the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

sbcrra's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, and Cannibalism

madlyhaunted's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

3.75

This was good. Fast paced and an easy read. Not quite a 4 star just because I felt there was something missing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

kyra_joy's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book isn’t complicated it’s just a fun horror slasher style book felt like I was watching a horror movie and I loved every minute of it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

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

booksofautumn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bf9288's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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? No

3.5

This over all was a good . Egnacio was completely scary and the gore and death was awesome!  Some of it was a bit cheesy but that’s what I love about slashers . For me it was a bit challenging to follow so many different characters and POV. I enjoyed the book over all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Cannibalism

gigireads3331'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

4.25

I had a lot of fun reading this one! I didn't like how it jumped from pov to pov without any warning, though. That made reading this a bit confusing at times. However, I loved how Gomez took elements from different and campy 80's horror movies and gave it his own spin. I'm a bit of a horror fan myself so, I really enjoyed that aspect of it. Even the supernatural elements sprinkled in (very Jason Voorhees type feel). I think this book was meant to a fun, campy (no pun intended, haha!) experience and it definitely delivered. Even though the characters did come off a bit immature for their age, I thought they were very realistic for the setting and the vibe that this book was going for. I want more from Sergio Gomez, for sure!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

ellornaslibrary's review against another edition

dark funny sad medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism

This book was not what it was advertised to be. If you're seeking straight up slasher horror? This isn't the book for you.

It introduces supernatural/paranormal elements that really drag it down.

Also, there are ways the killer is described that make me feel deeply uncomfortable as it seems to heavily suggest the mental illness super power aspect at one point amongst other things.