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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
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:
Yes
This was the most frustrating book I've read in a long while. The writing style is good, the concept is interesting, and the horror is very effective. But...the main character and the plot trajectory are both kind of awful. One of my biggest pet peeves in books is when the main character just has the plot happen to them. They're not making decisions that move things forward, they just stand by and things sort of happen around them. This was very much the case for Erin. Every time it seemed like she was going to finally actually make a choice, she just falls right back into the same place she just came from. I don't necessarily think this was an inaccurate way to portray someone battling an addiction, but in this case it made it difficult for me to really engage with the plot; it became very repetitive and tedious to watch Erin make the same choices over and over with the same results. Not my favourite.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Excrement, Grief, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury
This is one of the most disturbing books I have ever read. It goes through grief, loss, addiction, ghosts and so much more. It left me wide eyed and gaping through most of the book. The way addiction is depicted is so utterly raw. There are no words I can find other than how purely disturbed I was reading it. The anxiety throughout reading was unimaginable. Took up the entirety of my day. Absolutely heartbreaking and soul crushing ending. Sometimes no matter how hard you fight you can't win. Some people are like black holes. They suck every living breathe out of you. In the end its better to let them go before they suck you dry and theres nothing left.
Ghost Eaters
This was an interesting read.
When you've lost someone you love, how far would you go to see them again?
This was my first Clay McLeod Chapman book and looking forward to reading more of his work.
This was an interesting read.
When you've lost someone you love, how far would you go to see them again?
This was my first Clay McLeod Chapman book and looking forward to reading more of his work.
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The first 40% was a mental health crisis story of a girl named Erin who got tangled up with an addict bf who ODed. Her grief took over until her shared friend approached her with a simple question, “want to get haunted”
The other 60% is a disturbing, slow burning, graphic ghost story where her grief turns her into an addict but in the most brutal way. Mushroom. Shrooms. Growing inside of her until she OD’s herself.
Such a good tale of how bad succumbing to grief can disable a person’s ability to function while putting a disturbing, graphic ghost story twist to it.
The other 60% is a disturbing, slow burning, graphic ghost story where her grief turns her into an addict but in the most brutal way. Mushroom. Shrooms. Growing inside of her until she OD’s herself.
Such a good tale of how bad succumbing to grief can disable a person’s ability to function while putting a disturbing, graphic ghost story twist to it.
