Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

7 reviews

yannic_rasmus's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

The second Hendrix novel I've read so far. I just love the mix of horror and comedy so much, even though this book's horror aspect didn't catch me quite as much as his other work(s) did. Still, it was a really cool experience - especially given this amazing design! The story was fast-paced, the characters felt really authentic and the ending left me wanting to read more; I would definitely recommend it :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Medical trauma, Body horror, Self harm, and Confinement

Moderate: Excrement, Gore, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Addiction, Abandonment, and Cursing

vaguely_pink's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Damn, maybe the horror really was capitalism all along.

I found it a bit hard to get into in the beginning. Hendrix's character exposition for our main narrator Amy is giving "I read a book about poor people once," or maybe I'm just jaded. However, once you get into the spooky stuff, I found it incredibly difficult to put down. I love the way Horrorstör flips the haunted house and

indigenous burial ground

tropes on their heads into an anti-capitalist "good for her" story. Truly grotesque. We love to see it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gore, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Confinement and Classism

Minor: Grief, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Excrement, and Forced institutionalization

floods, drowning, working retail

hellokatya's review

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

i really enjoyed this book! 
the beginning was very lighthearted, and even funny, making it nice to ease into.
as it went on, the horror was very prevalent and caught me off guard! i was not expecting it to be genuinely scary, but there were many times that i was physically recoiling with what was happening.
very very good and engaging book, highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism

gracklewarp's review

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Suicide, Body horror, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Abandonment, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Excrement

adelus21's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.0

The idea and design of this book is so cool but the writing is lacking. The middle of the book drags on and the ending well...

can you say to be continued? Great chance for an enemies to lovers storyline just  squandered!

And of course more rats.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Murder, and Confinement

arielanderic's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Gore and Confinement

Moderate: Abandonment and Blood

Minor: Vomit

jessiebertram's review

dark mysterious tense

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Death, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Gore