Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

122 reviews

arieslofi's review against another edition

dark funny tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, Ableism, Rape, Incest, Gore, Death, and Eating disorder

rhythmixia's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.25

How was the River Man more likeable than Lori

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Ableism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Murder

perpetuallygreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I’ve never been more uncomfortable reading something in my entire life. I want to give it a five only for that but on a book platform I can’t because it simply is not. But this book wrecked me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Incest, Ableism, Medical trauma, and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder

nyquilcryptid's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The novel-length version of that joke in Natural Born Killers. "Look bitch, you knew I was a snake." 
Absolutely mind the trigger warnings on this one, very explicit content ahead. But the writing is wonderful, and the story is so, so good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Incest, Rape, Racial slurs, Violence, Gore, Blood, Death, Murder, and Sexual assault

curlysushi's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It’s an average horror story, the ending is way too predictable if you think about the role of each character. Could be better, not the absolute worst. It’s a good fast read, took me about 2 hours 

Personally, I’m  familiar with horror stories in movies and literature so this was just way too predictable. Content wise it’s pretty depraved, but it’s not the absolute craziest stuff IF you frequent this genre often. Character development is definitely present, so don’t listen to the reviews saying no. It’s simply not developing in the morally upstanding direction. Lori certainly changes, as well as Abby. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Incest, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

elizatron's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Rape, Incest, Murder, and Ableism

nporter5's review against another edition

that was…..a lot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Gore, and Ableism

Moderate: Murder and Eating disorder

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

katelynalice's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexism, Murder, Racism, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Incest, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Rape, and Violence

lish02's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Death, Child abuse, Violence, Vomit, Mental illness, Child death, Ableism, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, and Gore

d_cave's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Jesus Christ. This book is up there with Amygdalatropolis by B.R. Yeager as some of the most fucked up books I’ve read, funny enough because both have some similar topics covered within. Where this differs however is it’s much more steeped in genre, especially Splatterpunk, but I was glad to see my beloved Cosmic Horror make an appearance. 

The writing could use some work, dialogue felt a bit unnatural too often, simile didn’t always work for me, and the side characters ranged from okay to hilariously ridiculous caricature. I didn’t hate my time with it, and winced pretty often, but I assume Triana’s writing skills will improve. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Eating disorder, Murder, Sexual violence, Incest, Gore, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Ableism