Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

18 reviews

linneajht's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

That was extremely disturbing. I LOVED IT. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Abortion, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Cannibalism, Eating disorder, Death, Abandonment, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, Car accident, Body horror, Sexual content, Rape, Pregnancy, and Addiction

readingwithgoose's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

The main character was such an annoying edgelord, I rolled my eyes so many times. If Morrison did that on purpose in a self-aware way, that's kind of brilliant; but if we're supposed to think the narrator is actually cool and ~dark~ and different, then this book is a massive failure. Very "we live in a society". 

The twist at the very end was whatever, but the scene that was supposed to be the most ~shocking and crazy~ has been done before so it didn't end up shocking me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Vomit, Body horror, Abortion, Child death, Pregnancy, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Excrement, Medical content, Alcohol, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Car accident

jwvaughn's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Medical content, Infidelity, Cursing, Drug use, Blood, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Murder, Excrement, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Abortion, Gore, Sexual assault, Child death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

barelyalex's review against another edition

dark medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Abortion, Cannibalism, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Medical content, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction, Pregnancy, Rape, Alcoholism, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent and Drug abuse

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

peachieko's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

This book was so full of itself 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Body shaming, Incest, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Cursing, Medical content, Rape, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Addiction, Death, Excrement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent

scaredy_bear's review against another edition

challenging dark funny 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

3.5

Somehow I’m more upset by the MC’s “I’m not like other girls” vibe, throwing fits when called normal or told he still unfortunately is a part of society than by his nefarious deeds.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Body horror, Abortion, Murder, Miscarriage, Gore, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Medical content, Sexual content, Infidelity, Death, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Addiction

Moderate: Car accident, Infidelity, Death of parent, Cursing, and Fatphobia

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

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

Nope nope nope.
Horrible book. Fucked up. Clearly written by a man, the personality of the main character is cringe and annoying. 
I've been super into horror lately but this is just mindless fucked up. First DNF of my reading stint this year. No thank you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Abortion, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Rape, Torture, Sexual content, Violence, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Medical content, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent