Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

5 reviews

afaerytale's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

A great cottagecore horror short with a guessable but enjoyable twist near the end however the very end twist surprised me. A really good read, you could almost taste the cupcakes and smell the scented soaps!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual violence, Gore, Vomit, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

thepaperwitch's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture, Cannibalism, Animal death, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Gore, and Stalking

A lot of these content warnings are in the background and made through connecting the dots or discovery after the fact/cliffhanger kind of inferring, but I still added them.

mobymaize's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

Overall Bloom is an incredible piece of queer horror that does not have the characters’ sexualities be a major part of the plot. While at times the writing falls into fanfiction territory, I still throughly enjoyed this story and its truly delectable & delightful hints to what’s happening. As I slowly realized what happened, I genuinely felt sick to my stomach /pos. 

Quite campy, but quite compelling!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Death, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Confinement, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Misogyny, and Abandonment

Hey gang the whole premise of this story is cannibalism as romance so just a heads up <3

rhiannonafternoon's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious fast-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

4.5

What enchants you at the beginning of this story is what makes it the scariest at the end. New love, feelings you can’t quite explain, and red flags floating right on by, Ro is in far far over her head. She just doesn’t realize in what capacity. 

I got a little hung up on some of the vocabulary, but it’s fitting for Ro’s character. It was just hard to parse if there weren’t context clues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexual content and Animal death

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Torture

erynlasbelin's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

 Beautifully written, weirdly relatable, and immensely disturbing.

Content warning: violence against animals. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Abandonment