Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon

5 reviews

punkyjewster's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

I wanted to love this so badly. It was recommended to me because Midsommar is one of my favorite movies, and I was looking for similar folk horror. 

The first 300 pages are not horror in the slightest. I didn’t love the main character but some of the side characters (like The Widow) were enough to keep me interested. It was a slog to get through, but I was hoping for payoff. 

The end of the book is atrocious. If you picked up on the author’s misogynistic undertones in the beginning of the book, you win! You get several pages of a

GRAPHIC SA perpetrated by the narrator for revenge, and somehow all the people in the town just… don’t really care that much???

. The ending was so easy to see coming, and it was evident through his language that he really wanted to portray all of his female characters as conniving and evil. 

Again, I REALLY wanted to love this book. Horror about an isolated group of people who welcome outsiders and end up being terrifying? One of my favorite sub-genres. But my goodness, this felt like a waste of time with no payoff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Violence

angel_kiiss's review against another edition

challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

It’s actually pretty fantastic and quiet a page turner. It’s sold on being scary with lots of horror elements but is closer to a investigation of cults then it is to a horror story. The funny part is that this is like a precursor to Midsommar, but the “horror” readers are supposed to feel comes from the power of women dominating men and men being the victims. It’s Midsommar except from the boyfriend’s perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Medical content, Sexual content, Death, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide, and Rape

nikkiacat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexism, and Pregnancy

shonavtj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, Murder, Infidelity, Gore, Gaslighting, Death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Ableism

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Death, and Violence