Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

82 reviews

readingbyte's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Murder, Violence, Gore, Child death, and Rape

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Ableism, Rape, Suicide, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

dyingfetusmax's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Incest, Child abuse, and Ableism

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, Medical trauma, War, Torture, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

reddarko's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Ableism

_shannanigans_'s review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Rape, and Incest

Moderate: Ableism

cammaleahh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual violence

Moderate: Ableism, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

zeegy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Enjoyed the way the mystery was revealed in short bursts, you think you know what it'll be and it'll throw you a curveball you hadn't even considered. By the end Lori truly got what she deserved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Body horror, Blood, Ableism, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gaslighting, Excrement, and Death

noelle1121005's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Ableism, Murder, Incest, Blood, Body horror, Death, Rape, Violence, and Racial slurs

horrorhayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

When I was told this would ruin my day I didn’t believe it but this did in fact ruin my entire day 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, Incest, Ableism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

chloseencounter's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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

2.0

This book reminded me why I need to stop taking recs from booktok. Every other book video I see told me that this is the most disturbing book so and so has ever read, so morbid curiosity got the best of me. The description was very interesting to me so I was really hoping for this novel to be everything I was looking for and more but unfortunately it just…wasn’t. Partly it was my own fault because I went in knowing very little about this book, I was expecting the “extreme horror” aspect to be a lot more visceral violence and not just generally upsetting. So you can imagine that I was a little caught off guard by some of the content. 

What I did enjoy about this book was the second half, I really liked the more folk horror aspects of this story. That bit was more gripping to me than just learning about how much the MC sucks. The latter half of this novel is the only reason I’d rate it a 2.0 at all. 

I was also quite put off by the way the two sisters where written. It felt very much like the sexually promiscuous sister is horrible and evil and the “innocent” and infantilized sister is pure and a perfect angel. It was a very unrealistic portrayal of women in general and kind of a weird vibe even if the author didn’t mean it that way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Ableism

bkmason's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, and Incest

Moderate: Ableism and Blood

Minor: Suicide and Eating disorder