Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Woom by Duncan Ralston

50 reviews

aguzzi1's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Abortion, Body horror, Rape, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction and Blood

laineejo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Abortion, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gore

Read at your own risk😂

ekmook's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Pregnancy, Abortion, Addiction, Drug abuse, Excrement, and Misogyny