Reviews tagging 'Rape'

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

254 reviews

sehenry20's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Animal death, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Vomit, Racism, Eating disorder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol, Mass/school shootings, Ableism, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Self harm

kimberlina82's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Drug abuse, Gore, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Violence, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Eating disorder, Excrement, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

robert_schreiner's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

galaxyelfjess's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The book was slow-paced at first and gave a lot of background on the friendship between the main characters, but I wanted it to hurry up and get to the present. I felt the same way when Hendrix seemed to ramble randomly at times and I just wanted to get to the point.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape

kellygracejackson's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Torture, Body horror, Eating disorder, Excrement, Sexual assault, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Violence, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

m1923's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape

ibbybug's review against another edition

dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

I loved this book, and the ending did honestly bring me to tears from sweetness. It was a really nice friendship story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Animal death

Moderate: Rape

kaitrenwick's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicide and Rape

christyc's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I do think this book is spoiled slightly by its title 😅 like it could at least be called something not as obvious…

I enjoyed the atmospheric descriptions and 80s references but unfortunately that was about it.

It is consistently referenced that Abby is smart throughout the book. Bitch??? No she is not, that girl lacks any common sense or intelligence imo.

I also didn’t enjoy the fact that Max was killed. I thought that was unnecessary - it didn’t really add anything to the story. Sure, it’s probably more upsetting because he was described as such a trusting dog, but it still was not really needed and added little to the story.

Also, there was no need for the Spirit Week part. Like if you know having a Slave Day is problematic, and you even REFERENCE this immediately after saying it, why even put it in there? Plus the constant slut shaming and approach to rape just was not it for me.

A tad disappointed as I was hoping to love this book more than I did. Overall, an okay book but slightly problematic and not something I think I would recommend to people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

knels813's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad fast-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Moderate: Body horror, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts