Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

11 reviews

savannnah_reads's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

This is the most unhinged, terrible, vile, try hard, AWFUL book I have ever read. This book made me want to make a donation to the NSA and sign a petition for more government censorship. Somebody should check this guys computers and then we should lock him in a stockade and throw tar at him.

And none of this is in a funny way + I am not an oversensitive wimp who can’t handle ~gore~ 

I don’t know why you would write this (actually I do. It’s very clear this author thinks he has a deep and unique POV that we should all care about. And also hates women). There’s so much blatant misogyny and explicit glorification of rape I can’t believe any editor actually sat through the drafting process. 

There isn’t even some moody, obscure metaphor for this book to hide behind. It’s literally some dude penning his extreme taboo jack off tumblr fantasies about violating dead women (and children. And babies) (but only the hot ones) and existing “outside the system” while lusting after manic pixie dream girls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Rape, Body horror, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Medical content, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Classism, Cannibalism, Animal death, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Abandonment, Abortion, Cursing, Child death, Child abuse, Body shaming, Murder, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Gore, Fatphobia, Sexism, Drug use, Death, and Animal cruelty

ry_am_bread's review against another edition

dark tense 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

4.5

Morrison has little issue exploring the extreme with Dead Inside. 

Should you want something with extensive horror, particularly in cannibalism and body horror? You’ll probably enjoy this. I have a strong stomach, and had to set the book down several times. 

Read at your own risk. Look up content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cannibalism, Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

saybrina's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Self harm, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Gore, Gun violence, Drug use, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Murder, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

kklosowski09's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Gore, and Suicide

Minor: Car accident, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Incest

nerolireads's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

Honestly... I don't know where to start. I picked it up out of curiosity after hearing one of my mutuals on tiktok mentioned it, thinking 'pfffff... how bad can it be?'. BAD. Really bad. I honestly think the entire goal of the author was to gross people out. It worked. I initially DNF'd it after being introduced to the "hobby" of the second character. And then stupidly picked it back up and finished the read. I regret every word I read. 

In short; it's about a security guard in a hospital who likes to have smexy times with the dead bodies in the morgue and a maternity doctor who likes to snack on dead babies while having fun with herself. They meet and then science what combining their "hobbies" would look like. And the book ends in gore. 

It's very graphically, descriptively written with the sole purpose of making it as twisted and gross as the author is capable of. 

DO NOT RECOMMEND READING IT
(literally the only plus is that other horrorbooks are childsplay now)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Vomit, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Excrement, Gore, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Child death, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Abortion, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death, and Medical trauma

Rape is glorified in the book

chloseencounter's review against another edition

First book I’ve ever DNF. I’m on an extreme horror kick currently so I wanted to give this a try but almost halfway through this book I still felt as if it was written by an edgy teenage boy.

It seems like reviews are either “this is the worst book I ever read, I love it.” or “this is the worst book I ever read, I hate it”, but all the good reviews have no commentary about the actual substance of the book, they’re all just “well that was gross.” I understand feeling as if a book must be good because it gave you a visceral reaction but l personally need a little bit of substance with my violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Blood, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Gore, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Child death, Sexual assault, and Cannibalism

zeegy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I'm shocked by how much i ended up liking this. it was intriguing as it was disgusting I couldn't put the book down and the way it's narrated in this almost comedic fashion is jarring yet compelling 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Excrement, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

necrophilia and cannibalism specifically of babies

they end up having sex while Helen is eating a baby and then afterwards fucking the corpse of a baby and it's truly vile

teaforazathoth's review against another edition

Yes, it was gross. I was prepared it to be gross. But I didn't find any reason for the grosness, no actual deep point that justifies it and my continuation of reading it. 
If there's some clever ending, I won't know. And I doubt it would be worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

addythebookbat's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Medical content, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Abortion, Animal death, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Addiction

Graphic depictions of necrophilia of women and a fetus.

amysanti27's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence