Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Piękna i bestialska by Kristopher Triana

9 reviews

bookdeviant86's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Body shaming, Child death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Drug use, Murder, Torture, Gore, Mental illness, Sexism, Stalking, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, Bullying, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Violence

No words. Good book. Definitely extreme horror

gracethezombie's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Murder

claude_'s review against another edition

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'. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Self harm, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Drug use, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Murder, and Physical abuse

missgrangerr's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

2.0

So as far as horror this gets a 5. However reading it wasn’t pleasant, hence the 2. I highly doubt it was meant to be, but I needed to take many breaks from seeing the world through Kim's eyes. Never encountered such a horrific person and hope to never again. The things Kim did was beyond deplorable. Her goal was to ruin lives just because and boy did she. The things she caused were horrendous and made it so hard to read at times. However, with all of that said I was determined to see how Kim's plans worked out! Will continue to follow Kristopher Tiana's work.

All that being said, it has been a year since I have read it and talk about this book ALL THE TIME.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Gore, Sexual violence, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cannibalism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Murder, Sexual assault, and Torture

jwmeyer86's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Murder, Bullying, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Mass/school shootings

postmortem's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Torture, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Blood, Death, Violence, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

jj_tj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, and Torture

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, Infidelity, and Gun violence

Minor: Self harm, Bullying, and Drug use

sharron_joy_reads's review against another edition

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! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Pregnancy, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, and Grief

This is extreme horror, check trigger warnings this is not for the faint hearted

nicolehm_'s review against another edition

dark funny 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? Yes

4.0

Hands down the most fucked up and disturbing book I have ever read…weirdly brilliant. 

I always find it hard to give a star rating for books of this nature due to the excessive gruesomeness, however, the main character’s manipulation techniques were a dark genius and the pace of the book was perfect to keep you wanting to know what would happen next. 

Only downfall was that I felt there was no backstory to how the main character developed their ‘interests’. It was like she just woke up one day and became evil.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Rape, Murder, Torture, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Gore, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, and Emotional abuse