Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen

4 reviews

brookey8888's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.0

This isn’t horror like scary ghost and slashers. It’s the horror of history and men. 

The start of this was kind of boring I’m not going to lie because nothing really happened. But the last like 20% had my jaw on the floor multiple times and not because it’s necessarily shocking, but because it was so disturbing and anger inducing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Classism, Colonisation, Child death, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Hate crime, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

amris's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Racism, Violence, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Police brutality, Toxic friendship, and Classism

mfrisk's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

This read was a good mixture of social commentary and supernatural horror. It discussed the complexities of growing up in an area which still holds onto its segregated and racist history and even makes an attraction out of a plantation which has seen atrocities which we see recreated by the ghosts who still are haunted by what they saw and experienced. It discusses poverty, racism, friendship, and the need to feel you’ve moved up. The only reason I’m giving it 4 stars is I think it could have incorporated the elements of horror earlier on in the book. There was a lot of background given on our characters and setting which was helpful but I think didn’t allow us as much time to get into some of the story elements and delve deeper. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Gore, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual violence, Torture, Racism, Confinement, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, and Child abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship

mysterymom40's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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: Gore, Torture, Rape, Violence, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Racism, Death, Confinement, Child abuse, and Body horror

Minor: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

forced prostitution, carving/cutting away skin