Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Woom by Duncan Ralston

52 reviews

clarke's review against another edition

dark funny 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

4.0

This was so fucking funny

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Fatphobia

shayyyy31's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

aguzzi1's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, and Medical trauma

lauryn_amber26's review against another edition

dark sad 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: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

amberlinanderson's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

5 stars: Not because I thoroughly enjoyed it; quite the contrary. This book is sick. It’s awful. It’s gross. All that said, it had me hanging on the edge of my seat, because I HAD to know what happened next. I almost quit right at the end, but I couldn’t. 

ps the ending reminded me of the movie ‘Men’.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, and Abandonment

caffeinated_or_chaos's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.0

Disturbingly dark. Not at all what I expected — but heinous nonetheless. This nontraditional tale of horror will definitely fuck up your brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

our_bookish_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This was truly one demented, excessively gory and odious, yet unique book. I don't think I'll ever be able to read this book again. I really enjoyed it, i think. 😅 I like to think i have a pretty strong stomach. I've seen many a thing in my life, but NEVER before has a book made me so nauseated that I physically turned the book from my face and looked away from it to process and not vomit on my book and bed 🤢... but just like true horror, it drew me back in. 

This was a "read at your own pace" buddy read, with three IG friends. We shall see what they think as well!!

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Content Warnings

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

mamaashley's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Pregnancy

soterpop's review against another edition

dark sad fast-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? Yes

5.0

This was easily the most messed up book I've ever read. It felt very real, the scenarios that were laid out in the novella. Everything I read felt like it has happened or could happen to someone in real life, and that made it 10x creepier. The visceral descriptions that were seemingly sprinkled in every other paragraph were intense, to say the least. It makes you wonder how a persons mind could conjure up some of these ideas, but in another way it makes sense that someone could conjure up these things. 

Our main character, Johnny, on the surface seems like a very relatable guy. He has some trauma and he's looking for ways to get through them and rise above. However, once you break past that surface you quickly find out his ways aren't very relatable, but you still, somehow, hold sympathy for him. That's always such a weird thing to experience in reading. Being able to feel sympathy for someone who is about to commit a heinous act. I suppose that's just our human nature. 

For such a short read, it truly makes you think a lot and dive deep into the inner workings of human beings. I'm not the one to shy away from the macabre, so I enjoyed this book a lot and want to look into more of his works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Moderate: Addiction and Blood