Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

57 reviews

spookytaco's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Blood, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Torture, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Murder, Grief, Animal death, and Medical trauma

owlribbon's review

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Terminal illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Sexism, Violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child death, Animal death, and Bullying

theimposter's review

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Graphic: Blood, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Body horror, Bullying, Animal death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Death, Rape, Misogyny, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Torture

shutupsylvia's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Albeit long, Mary is an entrancing novel full of surprises that makes the 58 chapters worth every second. From the sense of paranoia Nat Cassidy creates for the reader to the whole host of fun characters, you find yourself lost in Mary’s story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, Body horror, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming

wylovat's review

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Animal death, Confinement, Blood, Cursing, Body horror, Body shaming, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

mx_eyebrows's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is a gory, horror masterpiece! This is a new favorite book for me, and possibly my favorite horror book of all. It’s disgusting and beautiful at the same time. Explores the horrors of the patriarchy and how women, especially older women, are treated. And it’s written by a man. Like, what? Heavy trigger warnings, so check those before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Violence, Confinement, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Torture, Rape, and Sexual assault

voicenextdoor's review

dark funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Torture

morganmay's review

adventurous dark hopeful 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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. If you read it you HAVE to read the author’s notes (one at the beginning and one at the end) as they are a huge part of the reason I loved this. I won’t give too much away, but it definitely went a different direction than I predicted and I will keep parts of Thai book with me forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Sexism, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Body horror, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Torture, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Stalking, Misogyny, Bullying, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Violence, and Trafficking

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

This was just okay for me. It was way too long and unfocused in places but it had a few good scares and some of the stuff with the ghosts was great. I get what the author was trying to say with the ending but I'm not 100% sure it worked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Stalking, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Vomit, and Child death

cantfindmybookmark's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, Torture, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Death, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexism