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Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

138 reviews

breadhag's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

I was really excited about this book and the new perspectives it could bring to horror, but it just wasn’t well-written and only about 40% of the book felt necessary/beneficial to character development or plot, in my opinion. If I wasn’t listening to an audiobook which made it easy for me to skip sections or tune out, I don’t think I would have finished this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Cannibalism, Torture, Transphobia, Body horror, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

alexxshum'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

Poor writing with gratuitous rape/sex scenes. I probably should have DNF’d at the 20% mark but I wanted so badly to like it. Majority of the characters were SO unlikeable with little to no redemption arc. The amount of cursing, insanely description sex scenes, and gore made the writing feel immature and written purely for shock-value. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Cannibalism, Rape, and Sexual content

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.75

A brutal look into how easily TERFs could spread their rhetoric, and just how far they really wish to take it. The horror in the violence and gore was explicit, yet somehow this book kept some levity. After all, what do we have if not the small pleasures and each other? Imagining how JKR died a horrid death was fun.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Grief, Gore, Cannibalism, Drug use, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Transphobia, War, Blood, Body shaming, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Medical content, Rape, Sexual violence, and Slavery

comradeluffy's review against another edition

challenging tense fast-paced

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

1.5

I genuinely was 20 pages away from finishing this book, but couldn't get myself to do it. I should have DNF-ed it halfway through, but hate doing that.

The idea for the book is good and the premise of it is good, but it is not executed well, at all. The characters were impossible to connect with beyond sharing similar labels as a queer person myself. The descriptions of characters and settings were confusing and lackluster and I couldn't keep up with the constant switching of POV's. 

Also, what exactly was the point of all those random sex scenes? I love smut, but come on now. 

Unfortunately, an exhausting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, Vomit, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Deadnaming, Gore, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Drug use, Blood, Animal death, Body shaming, Body horror, Cannibalism, and Child abuse

jebowman123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.75

I almost seemed to lose interest right when the plot started to unravel. There’s just a bit too much going on in the end there. It feels over complicated for no good reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Gore, Classism, Fatphobia, and Cannibalism

alienguy's review against another edition

the author's barely disguised fetishes just felt gross. none of the story elements were playing well together. i think all horror should be tempered with comedy, but this just felt like trauma porn with a few badly timed, disturbing jokes. 

i think all stories about trans people are important. i'll fiercely defend this book's existence, but it's absolutely not for me, lmfao 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Cannibalism, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Violence, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Fatphobia, Ableism, Gore, Hate crime, Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

andykarnik's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-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

3.0

Mind the trigger warnings! This book was pretty damn intense. The less intense moments where you, the reader, are meant to rest are almost exclusively sex scenes. There were a few satisfying cathartic moments at the ends of part 2 and 3

Bunker brat Sophie getting eaten by her "boyfriend", the ship Galbraith (WTF) being destroyed, and Teach's death

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A lot of this book was saying aloud the quiet parts of American society with regards to transgender people so sometimes it was a revelation that other people experience the same things I do and other times horror that things could be so much worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Transphobia, Rape, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Deadnaming, Body shaming, Slavery, Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Fatphobia

izpalm's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

I appreciate the diversity, and honestly nothing else

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Cannibalism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Homophobia, Death, Cursing, and Sexual content

Minor: Deadnaming

max63815's review against another edition

Not for me personally. I liked the themes, but found the intense violence & even some of the sexual content gratuitous. I also struggled with the frequent perspective shifts & got a bit lost.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Rape

emmablue's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

my thoughts while reading: ew. damn. what? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Body shaming, Death, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Gore, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail