Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

32 reviews

littlefemur's review against another edition

2.25

This book could have been amazing if it hadn’t resorted to cheap tricks like taking on the problematic language of the 80s. How unimaginative do you have to be to take us back into the past by using fucked up language? It was so hard to enjoy the story because fairly often I was jolted out of it by poor choices from a white man writing in 2016. 

 Here’s a sampling:
AIDS jokes

Weird gross sexualizing of a Black woman and making her a joke

Jokes about brain damage 

Using the r word
A retro version of “no homo”: dearly but not queerly

Queer as slur

“Spazzing” out and “spaz” - this one was everywhere 

AIDS jokes

Blackface

Sitting Indian style

Slave day

Casual fatphobia

“You look like an Ethiopian” to someone who’d lost a bunch of weight. 

 
So edgy. Wait no, I meant unimaginative and disappointing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

Minor: Animal death, Addiction, Child abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, and Adult/minor relationship

uhm_kai's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

so fckin good and pretty gay actually

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

beks1996's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Racism, Suicide, Gun violence, and Rape

celleuloid's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Rape

davidrb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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

5.0

DBNQ. This means the world to me. However, even if it tries to trick you into thinking it's light on the horror side of horror-comedy: there's one scene late in the book that is going to haunt me for the rest of my life and probably everyone else who grew up with the same urban legends and creepypastas as I did. The sexual assault warnings are also no joke. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Vomit, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Classism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Alcohol, Body shaming, Mental illness, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

For the adult/minor relationship, nothing actually takes place but it's alluded to several times and these allusions are pivotal later in the book.

boyunrelated's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Body horror, Animal death, Bullying, and Drug use

Moderate: Rape, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

kaylee1957's review against another edition

dark funny 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

4.0

Campy, dramatic, hilarious, thrilling horror novel about the power of friendship and demonic possession. The 80s theme is hilarious and well done. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

madarauchiha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜  my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️

How do I begin to describe this book. Fucked up. Creepy. A tale about high schoolers but not in a irritating ya genre way. Very eighties tho I know nothing about that cultural time span. Well written with creepy gory horror shit. Pretty accurate regarding what shitty things teens do. Classism as well. I'd reccomend this as a pop horror. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but that doesn't mean it avoids triggering topics. The horror is more medium religous horror than constant ghost hauntings. 

content warning:
Minor: ableist r slur, antiblack fetishization, car accidents, child death, cults, death, drug abuse, vomit / emetophobia, homophobia, homophobic qu**r slur [3 times], incest, medical content, murder, racism, whorephobic language

Medium: burns injury, car crashes, csa / pedophilia, date rape, drug use, drugging, guns, hate crime, injuries, medical content, menstruation, mouth trauma, rape, school shooting, serophobia / AIDs phobia, sexual assault, sexual violence, smoking tobacco, transmisogyny, victim blaming

Major: animal death, anti black racism, body horror, bullying / peer abuse, child abuse, dogs, drug use lsd, gun violence, injuries, insects, kidnapping, medical content, mental illness, parasites, religion [christianity], sexual assault, slavery [roleplay], suicide, suicide ideation, torture, unsanitary, violence, vomit / emetophobia, wrist trauma

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

Minor: Car accident, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Vomit, Homophobia, Incest, Medical content, and Murder

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.75

This book was insanely intense and heavy, but just so so engaging. It was mostly heartbreaking watching what these characters have to go through and what horrid things are done to them. It was an exciting novel, especially since I'm not normally a horror/suspense reader. I will definitely be reading more from this author and am looking forward to his new release this year.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Excrement, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

jenny_d's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit