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The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

2 reviews

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Misogyny, Ableism, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, and Suicide

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Incest, and Terminal illness

madarauchiha's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious medium-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

3.75

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

Ok what a weird horror book. Pop horror with a side of supernatural demonic possession and science fiction time travel. I'd rec this but with some caution. There's a fair amount of gore and death and other traumatic themes. The mc is intentionally unlikable and there are the usual edgy *ist / *phobic ways that go along with such a character. The writing was consistent and decent. The pacing is a little jarring and abrupt sometimes. It throws you through scenes without a care.

I can appreciate that in some way this is mental illness manifesting, but it's not blamed in an ableist way. The characters are quite straight forwards about it. I liked the unreliable narrator, and the sort of plot twist that leaves you questioning what the fuck happened. 

I think this is a great example of semi lighthearted 'found footage' type genre in literature. 


Misc bones to pick.

CHASTAIN: In layman’s terms, he was trying to control his own ego.LAWSON: What? His own ego? What? CHASTAIN: Listen. What the Mimi Experiment did, it projected Jack’s ego and turned it into a psychokinetic entity. LAWSON: How can a scientific experiment do that? CHASTAIN: Usually it can’t. But with a great deal of help from darkness . . . Jack’s ego was combined with everyone else’s to form a gestalt being. When that being came under threat, it rejected what it saw as the inferior parts of itself and came home to possess Jack. 

This is kinda a plot twist? like if youre deadset on traditional demon possession and nothing else you may not like this. Then again you probably havent gotten that far into the story to see this. 

Flashing those killer eyes of hers, Hot Mama (5,051 followers  says Mimi was a gifted singer and psychic who visited Kenya and got beaten to death for being a witch. She adds that this might connect our Mimi ‘rather nicely’ to Harold, as a tip of the hat.

What the fuck is this weird racism.

The mind plays Chinese whispers with itself.

Just say 'the whisper game' or 'telephone game'.

I wonder aloud whether female combat magicians are very common. ‘There’s a few of us dotted about,’ she says, slouching in her chair and propping her feet up on the balcony rail. ‘And most of us kick arse more than the guys. We got the advantage of a menstrual current, see. If something has blood, we’re even more able to fuck it up.’

This is some weird bad transmisogyny and cissexism. And intersexism? I think?

Content warnings.

major arson, blood, body horror, child abuse, death, drug abuse, drug use smoking tobacco, fire, gore, grief, house fires, misogyny, murder, parental death, psychosis?, religion catholic christianity, religious bigotry, self harm, sexual content, suicide, torture, violence, vomit

medium alcohol use, bone fractures, child abuse, child death, cissexism, drug use, eye trauma, gore, hand trauma, homophobia, medical content, murder, self harm, starvation, transmisogyny

minor ableist r slur, animal death, anti Rromani g slur, anti indigenous racism slur [Si*uxsie Si*ux], beastiality, blood, cancer, car crash, death, drug abuse, fatphobia, harvey weinstein mention, incest, infidelity, jehovahs witness, murder, overdose, pedophilia, racial slurs [sp**k], racism, sexual content, shooting spree, sinophobia, suicide, the sun magazine mention, whorephobic language

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, and Transphobia

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide