Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

55 reviews

nnylelocin's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Cursing

typedtruths's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

I suppose that if you speak long enough into the void, someone is bound to start listening.

a truly creepy, unsettling, eerie horror but the characters were bland, the writing shallow, and uh, the native american representation was kind of shitty? especially when you take into consideration the author's note

▷ Representation: protagonist with emetophobia; love interest with a sleep disorder; Native American scs.

Blog • Trigger Warning Database • StoryGraph 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Mental illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Gore

➸ Trigger warnings for emetophobia discussed, childhood trauma resulting in memory loss, blood/gore and dead bodies discussed, graphic emesis, stillbirth discussed, grief and loss depiction, death of a friend (off-page), loss of autonomy (possession), and stalking.

amaranth_wytch's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, Gore, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Pregnancy, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

_terah_hansen_'s review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, and Gore

zapzap9000's review

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Child death, Colonisation, Miscarriage, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Torture, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Vomit

anntharai's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Stalking, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

readwithbells's review against another edition

3.0

So the scares in this book were top tier. The audiobook narrator does such a good job portraying the varying mimicked voices that really added to the fear factor for me, especially when I was walking home after dark. 

Unfortunately, Blackwell makes a mistake here by planting the story’s POV in a character who is only experiencing the aftereffects of the horror. Felix (the character) is only a witness, whereas the real battle happens in Faye’s mind. By making Felix the POV, all agency that should go to Faye’s character where she unearths her repressed traumas and tackles them head on must be enacted by Felix instead, making Faye ultimately incredibly passive. The epilogue tries to rectify that by establishing Faye as the active agent, but that’s disingenuous to the actual story where Felix is the active unearther while Faye, at times, even violently opposes him for making decisions about her without her consent. I think that’s why the ending feels real anti-climactic. Because it all gets resolved in Faye’s mind, we don’t actually experience her real fight, only the aftereffects of it. 

So scares? 5 stars. Absolutely frightening. Story? Meh. I did appreciate the Indigenous rep. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

kaileet's review

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Blood, Death, and Grief

sophiesbookshelf2's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This book was originally created for a reddit horror thread and that made it make so much sense to me. It actually is quite a good horror story with a pretty good beginning that sets up a creepy atmosphere and a horror mystery that slowly expands in an interesting way, and it keeps going, and keeps going... like overall I really enjoyed most of it but there were like 3 times I thought it was ending and then I turned the page again and the actual ending felt a little underwhelming considering the start and middle felt like they were really high stakes horror. Good but could've ended better

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, and Gore

hyperashley's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Grief and Child death