Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

36 reviews

abutchstargazer's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Physical abuse, Gore, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Incest

saldre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Rape, Sexual content, Incest, Violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, and Sexual violence

marc3lin3's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

horrifying.
i had to take SO many breaks throughout this book.

the fact that lori feels no remorse and convinced herself shes the victim repulses me. abby didnt deserve to die (twice, no less). im not saying she deserved to die by edmund, but she deserved some type of death. killed her sister twice, had a victim complex, extreme obsession with killers, groomed/coerced/and raped her younger brother. not to mention shes continuously selfish and thinks edmund wont kill her treat her like shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Death, Murder, Incest, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexual assault, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

e_gracereads's review

challenging dark emotional 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

Again I… got what I signed up for. Despite the gore, despite the violence, despite the disgusting visuals and the true sense of dread, Triana’s writing is practically inescapable. As much of a joy as anything extreme horror can be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, and Death

zea_d_writing's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.0

I cannot recommend this book to anyone. Check trigger warnings and definitely do your research before deciding whether or not to read this book. 

I went into this knowing it was an extreme horror novel: which means I knew that its sole purpose was to be horrific, vile, disgusting, sick, revolting, shocking purely to be shocking, and potentially even offensive. I knew it would likely delve into taboo topics, as these kinds of books often do. 

And I wasn’t wrong. 

This book wasn’t actually as graphic as I expected. Don’t get me wrong…there are absolutely very graphic, very disturbing, sickening scenes and themes depicted in this book. It just wasn’t as over the top as I expected given what I had heard about this book. 
And I actually found the lore of this book really interesting and thought the storytelling itself was very effective. 

But this book is absolutely disgusting, sick, and offensive. 
I hated Lori, the main character. She’s vile in every way conceivable. Which is exactly how you’re supposed to feel about her - especially by the end. 

This book features pretty severe racism and the fetishization of Asian women. It uses slurs (g slur) and describes very graphic violence and SA towards these groups. There is also severe blatant ableism (both in how the disabled character is depicted and how the other characters treat, talk to, and talk about the disabled character. The r slur is used more than once…as well as other derogatory terms. 
The book features graphic incest and SA, murder, torture, dismemberment, violence and abuse, eating disorders, and a whole host of other triggers warnings. 

Its dark. Its graphic. Its offensive. Its sick.  I found the story itself weirdly interesting despite how twisted it was and the lore and worldbuilding were actually very intriguing. 

I’m giving this three stars because it did what it intended to do and at no point was anything written within treated like it was supposed to be anywhere near normal or moral or okay. Its an extreme horror novel and everything and everyone within was entirely fucked up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Eating disorder, Incest, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Body horror, Chronic illness, Gore, Grief, Racial slurs, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Torture

mothercoconuts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

*I have no personal trauma and no “triggers” but this book has everything…..proceed with caution!!
My god. I am new to the horror genre and have read several categorized as such this year. But this book, THIS is horror. Truly. I finished this last week and can’t stop thinking about it. 
This tackles so much! The imagery is incredible, the gore is balanced, the story is so original, besides the obvious fantastical element it’s honestly quite logical, the writing is beautiful (beautifully gross, too) everything comes together perfectly at the end. 
Couldn’t give it anything but 5 stars. Just wow. I cringed so hard several times - readers on social media always rattle off books that messed them up or are insanely disturbing but this is the first one that checked those boxes for me! Wild wild wild. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, Racism, Racial slurs, Blood, Child abuse, Mental illness, Death, Incest, Child death, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: War

maggotea's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

ableism abounds in this novel. the racism, murder, and sexual assault are all viewed as negative, but the ableism is meant to make us sympathize with our main character. not the case for me, i would not recommend this one and will not be reading it again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Rape, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Ableism, Death of parent, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

onceupontheresbrokenheart's review against another edition

dark mysterious

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Death, Murder, Incest, Physical abuse, Blood, and Gore

virgohorror's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

one of the best written horror novels i’ve ever laid eyes on. triana’s prose absolutely sings, and there are scenes in this book that, while incredibly disgusting and violent, are described so beautifully. i also just love his willingness to feature an unrepentantly vile man character — lori suuuuucks, and yet i was totally invested in her journey and wanted to see where she’d end up next. just an absolute gem of a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Death, Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexual assault

the main character is revealed to have molested her younger brother throughout their childhood. no punches are pulled — much is alluded to, but there’s a fair bit of graphic depiction of the abuse.

fairyribs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

it wasn’t as fucked up as I thought it was gonna be lol. All I can say is that mayosapiens can sometimes be the dumbest protagonists tbh.

The atmosphere in this book was unmatched. Edmund cox really reminded me of Richard Ramirez and Lori as his stupid groupie. Speaking of Lori, I loved how the author went from depicting her as a sympathetic character into a vile disgusting monster who deserved everything she got. Hell, I wish she was tortured violently and without salvation for what she did to her siblings. But that’s just me being unreasonably cruel when I know therapy should probably been something that she should have gotten.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Blood, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Incest, Gaslighting, and Ableism