Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

25 reviews

hellokatya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

this book is very fucked up.
oddly enough though, i really enjoyed it - the author has an addictive way of writing and weaving the story together, leaving you wanting more, even though you’d rather not continue on. 
it is quite predictable, but not in a negative way, it makes you want to continue on to see if it’s truly going in the direction you hope it won’t, and creates such dread within you. 

not a book i would necessarily just recommend to anyone, and definitely read trigger warnings - there’s some heavy stuff in here. will definitely be looking into the second book soon.
perfect for a start to the halloween season.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Sexual assault, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Grief, Suicide, Abandonment, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying

tmyoutzy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Gross

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Self harm, Incest, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Ableism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

ashofadummy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

OMG i loved this book! Its disgusting in the best way possible, and i loved how it blenda fantasy and reality? horror, i thought it would be more of a creepy supernatural being in the woods kind of book but it wasnt i loved that. The ending is fitting but kinda lame, I think that after everything that happened it was a little bit hurried/didnt get the amount of words it deserved? i would loved it if it. was a lottle more detailed.

I loved how yo start fellong pity for Lori and her sad lofe, thinking that maybe this thing for serial killers is just a way to spark her boring life, and wanting the best for her in this creepy situation she got into, but when you start to learn about her past you just want the river man to tear her apart. I think it was a perfect way to pass the book, i hate when horror books just take innocents lives to shock you more. /

Overall i think it was a good read to get our of a reading slump but the werinig, althought beatiful at parted, needed to be better at some points, specially develpment-wise. I loved the idea of intercalating present, past and the letters but theres something in how this is written that makes me go ehhhh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Self harm, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Gore, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mental illness, Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Vomit, Bullying, War, and Xenophobia

sarahjperry's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

I feel weird liking this book, but it was brilliant, and very well written. I really like the style of writing. I did not see where boom was going but was a dark ride. It's emotional and dark with a lot of triggers so look them up before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Self harm, Incest, and Sexual assault

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

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

rachelparker's review

challenging dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child death, Death, Incest, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual violence, Suicide, Self harm, Murder, Racism, and Rape

waverlyloyd's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

this book was so insane and brutal and dark and disturbing that it feels wrong to give it any kind of rating. so I won’t. If you are easily disturbed, scared, or grossed out, do NOT read this book. It was gruesome and graphic and sick. Seriously the most disturbing book I have ever read. I found it fascinating and thrilling, and it’s pretty hard to shock me, but this book did just that. i’m thankful it was only 165 pages. im going to go and watch a disney movie now … :-)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gore, Incest, Blood, Body horror, Death, Child death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Murder, Rape, Self harm, Violence, and Toxic relationship

maximauve's review against another edition

dark fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, Racism, Suicide, Child death, Rape, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual assault

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