Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Woom by Duncan Ralston

9 reviews

madelinequinnee's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Well that was disgusting. 

I’d seen this book being spoke about a lot on tiktok, but i didn’t actually know what the plot was, so i was rather curious to see what the hype was about and yeah, yikes. This was so disturbing in the best way. I physically recoiled whilst reading certain lines, and i’m gonna have some images burned into my brain for far too long. This definitely earns its title of extreme horror. 

I highly recommend checking trigger warnings and make sure you have a strong stomach before reading this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Infertility, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Drug use, Excrement, Abortion, and Addiction

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Medical content, Cursing, Infertility, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Addiction, Physical abuse, Rape, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Body horror, Excrement, Mental illness, Abandonment, Blood, Sexual violence, Abortion, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

tina7283's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Drug use, Fatphobia, Rape, Gore, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Vomit, Abortion, Addiction, Suicide, Sexual content, Violence, and Toxic relationship

reddarko's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

hey what the fuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Rape, and Abortion

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Racial slurs and Homophobia

Use of the N and F slurs two or three times.

night_shift's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

3.25

Bizarre! I wouldn't say this was extreme horror unless you find sexual stuff and body fluids horrifying (though I'll give that the bathtub scene and the prom night scene would probably fall into the horror side of things). Angel was a strangely sympathetic character even though his final act was completely vile and if I was Shyla I 100% would've left at that point. A strange sort of character study into a broken psyche, I guess. Deff check out the CW if you're concerned because there's a lot of things in here that won't set right with a lot of people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abortion, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Racial slurs, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Bullying, Vomit, Blood, Excrement, and Death of parent

annihilatrix's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

2.5

The writing is too good for the content to be so stupid! Potentially I don’t understand extreme horror, it’s so predictable if you’re capable of imagining the next disgusting thing that could happen.

Cramps after putting heroin in your gf’s vagina? Overdose miscarriage!
Anal sex? Messy prolapse!
Into masturbating with a mannequin? Make a dude into a mannequin by sanding his dick off! 
Having a sex worker dilate her vagina when you have mom issues? Stick your head up there for rebirthing!

These are all predictions I made while reading the opening premise of chapters that came true by their end. I might try another book by this author just to see if they have ever tried more compelling subject matter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Racism, and Vomit

ghast's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, and Drug use

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, and Pregnancy

shayyyy31's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Abortion, Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Vomit, Excrement, Grief, Infertility, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Gore, Homophobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, and Toxic relationship

uchihas's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad 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

1.5

it reminded me of a story a high school boy would write to try and get a reaction out of his teacher. predictable and gross just for shock factor. my only positive comment is that there was no animal abuse. PLEASE please check trigger warnings before you read this though!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Abortion, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Gore, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia