Reviews tagging 'Violence'

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

14 reviews

sammysamsam's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Physical abuse, Blood, Cursing, Murder, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Torture

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Abandonment, and Death of parent

decaying's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

A macabre and agonizing story of a never-ending hunger. I think Tantlinger's writing here is best described as festering. It is absolutely dripping with exquisitely putrid details of horror that makes you crawls under your skin and make you squirm. Although I really enjoyed her writing, I didn't find the overall book compelling. It is still a fun piece of horror and worth the read especially if you're interested in obscure and gore-y horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Violence, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Drug use, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual assault, Racism, and Death of parent

perkyanda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Whaaaaaaaaaaat

So normally I don’t really love the

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women be crazy

genre of horror, or

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gross out

horror, but here they join together perfectly in a <spoiler >gross disgusting sad fucked up tense whirlwind of ewwwww. </spoiler >

I can’t recommend this to anyone. It was literally nauseating. But it felt authentic and real and rough. 

The Dr. Fawning thing

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was a bit obvious too early for the reveal to have proper impact, but overall, I loved it bc it did show that deep inside she had juuuust enough self awareness to almost be able to help herself. But not enough, not enough.</spoiler >

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

ladyinverse's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I'd rate it higher if I could holy mackerel this was a very good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gore, Child death, Vomit, Cannibalism, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Spoiler

grieving and angry lesbian eats raw flesh.

danyels_denouements's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

Very well written and extremely vivid disturbing imagery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

venom's review against another edition

dark medium-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

0.5

Boring, edgy and predictable style of writing. Not much else to say about it.
Uncomfortably stereotypical portrayal of psychosis, as well as the same gender relationship in a sense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cannibalism, Murder, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Violence, Animal death, Gore, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, Child death, and Death of parent

patchespapercut's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I thought this was fine, the horrific parts were indeed horrific but I didn’t love how it all played out. I do love a gruesome novella though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gore, and Death

Minor: Cursing

readswithrachel's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

This book is disgusting but the writing is brilliant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

rayyax's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, and Torture