Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Woom by Duncan Ralston

22 reviews

killmoore_'s review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Oh, this was disgusting...

And I loved every word. Pretty sure the stories told in Woom will stick with me for the rest of my life. This is not for the faint of heart, but if you have the stomach, it is a tale of love and self discovery unlike any I've ever read.

Bless you, Shyla. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Sexual violence, Torture, Addiction, Blood, Gore, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Vomit, Sexual assault, and Violence

_windupbird's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Excrement, Death, Death of parent, Gore, and Rape

knik's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Super fast-paced book. I could see the “twist” coming a mile away, but that didn’t make it less enjoyable. Lots of reviews talk about how nauseatingly gory it is; it was certainly graphic, but
nothing worse than a Saw film. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Body horror, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Confinement, Mental illness, Abortion, and Gore

Minor: Vomit

quietlex's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

This was pure shit. I bought this because I saw a tiktok video claiming that it was a really good horror novel, and now I’m disappointed to have wasted my money. The “Extreme Horror Novel” label on the cover really means “disgusting sexual assault” in a bunch of different ways. I’ve always hated “horror” that ends up being just a sick man’s sexual fantasies/traumas. You can write a good horror that incorporates the good and bad of sex, without having the entire book revolving around the gore and other atrocities that can happen. The title “Woom” is accurate since the thing is chock full of vagina! Each chapter has some horrible thing happening to a poor woman’s body. There’s absolutely nothing scary about this book, it’s just flat out gross. The story telling is awfully drab and boring, with vile things being described blandly in order to grab your attention. It doesn’t work. The only good thing about this book is that it is so short. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Abortion, Addiction, Death, Abandonment, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

jaimee_reads's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

0.5

This reminds me of that episode of South Park where Butters writes The Poop that Took a Pee. There is nothing horror about this book, just gross out, tragic stories strung together with a bunch of sex. There are lines in here that I know are meant to shock, but literally had me laughing. It's trying to tell a story about trauma, but again, laughing at how ridiculous it is. Rape is a big plot point in this book, which...it's horrifying enough, it didn't need whatever treatment this was. Also, the author is white, but has a black character call another black character the N word. It's a throw away insult line that didn't have to use specifically that word, and it felt like it was an opportunity for a white person to use it on a technicality. "I'm not calling him the N word, the black character is so it's ok." This was published in 2022. Read the woom. HA! But seriously, don't bother. It's pretty terrible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Excrement, Gore, Vomit, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abortion, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Pregnancy

wildcitrus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Vomit, Sexual content, Rape, Gaslighting, Excrement, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Misogyny, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Grief, Infertility, and Racism

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, and Blood

cpcleveland13's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Confinement, Rape, and Blood

alomie's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.0

I don't think I can adequately describe how gross this book was, it's most definitely not safe for human consumption.

No amount of brain bleach will remove the horrors of this book from my mind, truly disgusting and I honestly have no idea what is wrong with Mr Ralston. 

A play on room/womb womb is a single room horror story, a man brings a overweight sex worker to a pay by the hour motel room and he starts telling her more and more depraved and disgusting stories, she in turn tells him some horrible stories of her life and clients, culminating in one of the weirdest endings I have ever read. 

This book made me question what the heck I just read.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pregnancy

dannybrown59's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

2.75

I honestly don't even know what to say about this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Excrement, Gore, Abortion, Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Murder, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, and Rape

rhiandroid_'s review

dark fast-paced

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

3.25

it's like
fine
I like how everything connected but there's more to 'extreme horror' than just poo and vaginas

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Excrement, Death of parent, and Confinement