Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Nosferatu by Joe Hill

44 reviews

hkveit's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Misogyny

lilyvonshtupp's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

You can tell he is Stephen King's son with this book. He even mentions Pennywise's Circus. Wonderfully flawed characters who grow and one who doesn't. Vic and Charlie make great adversaries. I loved when Vic realized that Charlie genuinely thinks he is doing good and that he really loves the children. I love that Vic is not an angel of a hero, but in some ways an anti-hero. She makes a lot of mistakes, but overcomes them in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

spookybenji's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Torture, Dementia, Grief, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This was good, but a little too long that I felt some parts dragged. I thought the concept was interesting, but I do personally wish that it was as supernatural as it was. This didn’t really creep me out and there was only like two or three kind of gross moments ( mostly relating to Bing). A lot of the characters were actually really funny. I also didn’t really love the ending to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

starfanie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Not my favorite. It was well written, but I felt like there were some unnecessary slurs and some of the characters weren't believable or the tropes were laid on a bit too thick. I really don't need a white writer to use the n word in modern fiction unless there is really no other word to progress the story. I was also disappointed with the narration of Kate Mulgrew as well (and I LOVE her) in the audiobook. Some of her character voices made certain characters even less believable and it was distracting. This is one of those few cases where the TV adaptation was better than the book. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Fatphobia, Incest, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

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

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.

kimgray0's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s a horror book so the darkness is to be expected. It’s easy to dislike the characters, but that works in this book. It’s a compelling read, as you never know what is going to happen next. I loved this book way more than I thought I would, even though it sat in my TBR pile for years! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, and Medical content

Minor: Police brutality

It’s a book in the horror genre, expect it to have all the trigger warnings as usual.