Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

115 reviews

mheffner3031's review

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, and Death

hexentart's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

*internal screaming*

Absolutely. Horrifying. Evil.

Oh, and demons too.

A gripping story of an evil cult masquerading as a church, the torture and abuse of young queer folk in the name of salvation, and
the power of love.

This book was A LOT and definitely not an easy read (mind your squicks), but it was all worth it. 

The ending was simply poetic and very satisfying. 😏

This was my first read of this author, but I'll definitely be looking into their other horror novels as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Violence, Torture, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Stalking, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Slavery, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Car accident

semisinful's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

I really loved this book,

seeing an autistic character so well represented was the icing on the cake of what makes this book special and important to me. I don’t see a lot of queer horror with happy endings and this just made me smile a lot.

Thank you Chuck Tingle.

This book was delightful and made me cry every time her chosen family accepted her autistic quirks. I’m lucky to have a family and a chosen family that accept me for my quirks and seeing it represented this way in fiction is so important.

Thank you for this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Homophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Sexism, and Sexual assault

samferree's review

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

There is not a shred of doubt that Conversion Therapy advocates would do this if they could.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Gun violence, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Slavery, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Death, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Child death, Hate crime, and Torture

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

Heartfelt and illuminating such a harrowing reality for so many. The way Chuck handles his queer and neuro divergent characters is so respectful. What an awesome read. Love is Real. ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Car accident, Torture, Violence, Blood, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit

multiplyoctopi's review

fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Torture, Medical content, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

trashkingmax's review

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Vomit, and Homophobia

Moderate: Violence, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Drug use, Cursing, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Stalking

jessicadoom's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Going into this, I knew I was going to likely compare it to the movie They/Them just because they both center around conversion therapy in a horror landscape. And, unfortunately, that comparison left me wanting more.

I wouldn't say the book was bad in any way. The story was intriguing and new, but it definitely could have been developed more. It either needed to be shorter and focus maybe on just the retribution act, or be longer and flesh out some of the details more.

Overall, it was all right. Could have used a bit more terror, and maybe a bit less Jesus, but still all right.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Violence, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Homophobia, Gore, Blood, Car accident, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Drug use

insects

pettywhaler's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Torture, Homophobia, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Gore, and Child abuse

Moderate: Car accident

vyralvyris's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

Such a fun book, really fun view on what is and is not a sin to the eyes of demons and people.  Always love a cult story.  The only thing keeping it front a 5 is the pacing is a bit of a drag at the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Kidnapping

Minor: Deadnaming, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Confinement, and Gun violence

If you don't like bugs in horror, I wouldn't fully recommend. It isn't super graphic, but if insects in people is a trigger, fully do not recommend reading this however good it is.