Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

285 reviews

shadowykittenwizard's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Blood

sortabadass's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Homophobia

Moderate: Car accident and Forced institutionalization

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gore, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Torture

kaia_'s review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Body horror, and Homophobia

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

archaicrobin's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

Camp Damascus is fun campy horror at its best but with a terrifying under-layer that touches on the evil of gay conversion camps and organized Christian based religions overall.  Excellent representation, excellent characters and story! This one is very out there so I recommend to those that can look past logic and appreciate fun horror. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Death, Body horror, Confinement, Homophobia, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Religious bigotry

zenzi2read's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

3.75

I have to give this book credit. It did a rare thing. after a supernatural occurrence, we characters took time to think about the real world repercussions of that. Is there an afterlife? Is it as represented by the Bible or something else. Most books don’t stop to ponder this although I imagine that most people would think about it, my only disappointment was that this book did not take place during the main characters time in a conversion camp. My expectation is that. It would be a slasher of some sort taken place during the camp. That’s not what this was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

sk_thrillerreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.75

This was a thought provoking read about religious extremism and the efforts to pray away the gay. It was dark but also left readers with hope that Rose will find her way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

hologram_reads's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

I really really wanted to love this book, but I don't feel that it earned its big moments after the halfway point. The setup and world building was very good, but once

the main character learns how to defeat the demons

all of the stakes disappear and youre left with 100 pages of flat lining  leading to a predictable ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Forced institutionalization

ambersautumnreads's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Car accident

brioches22's review

dark funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexism, Outing, Cursing, Confinement, Car accident, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Homophobia