Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Nosferatu by Joe Hill

59 reviews

sberry225's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

This book was like a fever dream. Joe Hill has an amazing ability to transport you to the past and present with the intricate descriptions and details. I feel while this book got off to a slower start, it really takes the time to build the characters and then the climax hits and you're fully invested. The villains were HORRIFYING as well. Check trigger warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault and Death of parent

chelseaharper's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Rape

shaylross's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

kaytrain71's review against another edition

 DNF'd at 40%. I cannot do this. This book was so horrendous it was physically affecting me. I could not figure out why I was in a bad mood and its because I've been listening to this fuckin book. Its over 700 pages/20+ hours of audio time and I have had enough. It's not horror, its not sci-fi, its some kind of splatterpunk gore bullshit with characters so unlikable you hope they all croak and they are not worth the fact that 50% of the book is repetitive exposition. .....Also I found out like 5 minutes ago that this author is SK's son. Which explains so many of the references. OOF. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

louiepotterbook's review against another edition

I was too stressed and looked up what happened which made me angry 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ktboyle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, and Medical trauma

scvalentine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I listened as an audiobook and highly recommend it as the reader is great at distinguishing characters and making some sound super creepy.

As a young girl, Vic escapes the tension of her family one night on her brand new bicycle, but it doesn’t just take her down the road, it takes her over a bridge that doesn’t exist to places where she finds lost things. At the same time, a chemical plant worker named Bing, is found by a man named Charlie Manx who drives a 1930s Rolls Royce. Manx offers him a job he has been dreaming of for years, one that is the worst nightmare of most people.

Vic and Manx cross paths and it ends in his arrest and her trauma. As she grows up, she’s haunted by what she has seen. But everything gets even worse when Vic has her own son and mysteriously, Manx dies in prison. 

It’s hard to give a good description without giving stuff away, but if you’re looking for a creepy and disturbing book about the crossover between internal and external worlds, I recommend this. I did think the first half had some slow parts, but once I got halfway, it flew by. Lots of trigger warnings for this, so look those up before reading if you need to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Pedophilia

infernalspectre's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

I almost finished this book, but it got to the point where I was just sick of it. Sometimes I forget that things don't just get more progressive over time and people still write books where evil people have facial differences which make them ugly, their henchmen are always mentally disabled and also ugly, fat people are lazy nerds who can't stop eating McDonalds and will inevitably have a heart attack, and while we're at it throw in a bit about how Indian people talk funny. Seriously, race is almost never mentioned except for the 2 Indian characters and of course the audiobook has to have the narrator do a kwiki-mart accent for them. Wild.

lbracs's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

If you asked me what I thought of this book or what rating it would receive for the first 60%, I probs would have given it 2 stars - not because it’s bad, just because I wasn’t into it. But once the plot got real good about 2/3 in I definitely got more invested and more ravenously read the back half. It was a pretty disturbing and graphic book in parts, definitely didn’t pull punches and sometimes it felt gratuitous, but I don’t know. Won’t be a repeat read, but I’m ok that I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

aposthuma's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

This book is SO GOOD. It has everything: romance, coming of age, fantasy elements, and a whole lot of pure horror. It starts strong and the pace just doesn't let up, culminating in a wonderfully satisfying ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail