Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Piękna i bestialska by Kristopher Triana

5 reviews

skogsheks's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark tense

4.75


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

bookdeviant86's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

claude_'s review against another edition

Go to review page

dark sad fast-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

5.0

While 'Full Brutal' was a stellar exploration of a steady slip into madness and excellently written, all I want to say is that I am afraid of everyone who wrote in their review that they 'relate to Kim' or 'love her'. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

sharron_joy_reads's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • 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

Wow!! This is a full throttle ride with the ultimate teen psychopath. The main character is if Mean Girls met the Evil Dead on a road trip to Texas carrying a chainsaw. 

The main character, Kim, is an all American honour roll cheerleader, admired, respected, envied. She decides the first person she’ll sleep with will be a man and not a boy and sets her sights on her teacher. Her plan works but now she’s pregnant and her baby need to be fed. 

This starts as a controlled descent into sociopathy, Kim hates her boring life, her boring friends but finds excitement in destroying the lives of others whilst maintaining her golden reputation. As the thrill of this increases she spirals into extreme cruelty and full brutality. 

This is extreme horror, it is gory, gruesome, explicit and not for the faint hearted. It is so appalling but it is a sickeningly great example of this genre, check the triggers, you have been warned! 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

theneverendingtbr's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book wasn't for me, it's just too disturbing, heartless and evil.

I just can't enjoy reading about such depravity and how much you can destroy another person just for the hell of it.

The writer is very talented though, can't deny that and he does exactly what he intended to do; leaving the reader shocked.

Not for me but if you're into 'extreme' horror, you'll probably like this.

Now excuse me while I scrub myself with bleach and turn vegetarian. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
More...