Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix

177 reviews

hellokatya's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

i really enjoyed this book! 
the beginning was very lighthearted, and even funny, making it nice to ease into.
as it went on, the horror was very prevalent and caught me off guard! i was not expecting it to be genuinely scary, but there were many times that i was physically recoiling with what was happening.
very very good and engaging book, highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

thegayestghost'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide and Gaslighting

frmeden's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-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

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Excrement and Stalking

eye horror is a big one if that creeps anyone out and RATS so many rats oh my god i was scared

joscelynhe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Much scarier than his other books I’ve read, but still very entertaining. Hendrix knows how to do tension and suspense well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

literarylily's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ilaxaria's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gore, and Blood

tazemu'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? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Genuinely interesting setting

,  especially with the homogeneous retail hellscape playing as the natural continuation of a haunted prison/labor camp site

. Also, the inclusion of the "Orsk" store materials is a fun bit of flair!

BUT...flat and unlikeable characters and super mid pacing + prose are both made objectively worse by the "edgy white horror guy" standard sensitivity pitfalls--super flat POC who are the two most annoying side characters, random fatphobia, reference to holocaust themes as shock value etc.

Generally, the book is a miss and best case strong adaptation fodder.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fatphobia

mallory10100's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

5.0

this was WILD 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

illiumbluebell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

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

4.0

The best feature of this book is the way it looks both inside and out. Staged to look just like an Ikea book, with maps, order forms and all this story was an easy read though a bit disturbing at times.

I don't read horror often, but after having heard about this from several people in separate conversations this book made it on my radar. So when I found it in my bookstore I had to pick it up. I'm very glad I waited to find a physical copy instead of reading the e-book as I was planning. Highly recommend reading it this way.

The plot was ok, with a twist ending that made me doubt everything. The characters were a bit unlikable to me, making it hard for me to care what happens to them. Despite that I was intrigued to see what would happen to them next. 

It was a short, interesting and weirdly fun (though disturbing) read. Happy to have picked this one up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Torture, and Violence