Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

125 reviews

keraturner20's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny fast-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

4.5

This is messed up…but good? I don’t know how to feel about liking this book. 
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aislyngarbs's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense
  • 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

5.0

Very graphic in a couple of parts. Please read the triggers first as some may be heavily upset by the content. 
Heavy on shock value, edgy to be edgy,  fast, easy read (1 day for me).
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hlehendricks's review against another edition

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dark sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
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miarosefox's review against another edition

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dark
picked this up because a youtuber recommended it and said it was super extreme. it was certainly gross! gratuitously so! no point to it at all! the incel writing style made this a hard one to get through but it’s so short that i trudged through. even if it’s splatterpunk satire, the “i’m edgy and different” vibes were too much
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amatoxin's review against another edition

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

1.0

As someone who usually enjoys dark, taboo and gruesome books i was truly disappointed by this book.
Its not because it was uncomfortable but because of the poor writing.
The gore and disturbing scenes i can only see fulfill a purpose of being shock porn and nothing else, theres no point or meaning behind them. The writer is literally an angsty teenager who is “not like everyone else” and no one can tell me otherwise.

I was annoyed the whole time by his self inserts and the only reason why i read the whole thing  is cause im a completionist and its less than 200 pages.

1/5 (only cause its so bad that its funny at times), do not recommend.
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meeshbunny's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

Nope
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thelilangrybookworm's review against another edition

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Way more intense that I was prepared for. I thought this book was just about a few cannibals struggling with their humanity but the POV of a necrophile is too far for me.  
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deathmetalheron's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny tense fast-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

3.5

Not for the fainthearted, to put it lightly. The prose and approach to character is phenomenal. It goes without saying that the major themes of this book are cannibalism and necrophilia, and the author does not shy away from visceral descriptions of both acts. 

This is my first splatterpunk book, and even though the majority of themes are met with revulsion the vast majority of character dynamics/situations negotitate with the severity in an appropriate matter, that is to say--appropriate for their subject manner. The protagonist is quite unlikable, and while there are dips in moments whereas you wonder whether the dislikability is intentional or just potentially reflective of an acidic actual personality of the author it mostly fits the story. 

That is to be said, the most grotesque scene in this book (if you've read it, it's very obvious, the one about 2/3 to 3/4 through the book) is very clearly written to offend and due to its nature comes across more as shock jock tomfoolery than necessary revulsion. The last action taken in the scene by the characters is far too meta but for a book that is so meta-aware the text does nothing to indicate it understands that angle at this point in the story. As it stands, the concept of exploring humanity's dark psychological recesses is certainly possible but it will always reek of tryhardism if we simply rely on weak, ineffectual shock without any existential consequence.
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kristinajoy07's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • 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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ka_ask2002's review against another edition

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

3.0

only getting three stars because it was better than Girl Abroad
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