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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Excrement, Grief
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
reflective
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:
No
Chuck has very obviously never been a 13 year old girl. I don’t think he’s ever spoken to one either but that’s probably for the best
I discovered Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis over 10 years ago and I was blown away. I lived a pretty sheltered life, so I had never read such dark, shocking, and violent books. It opened up a new world of books for me. I eventually dropped Ellis after trudging through Glamorama, but I stuck with Palahniuk for a while. I think I gave up on Haunted and moved on. So last week I see Damned on display at the library and decide to pick it up based on a blurb likening it to Dante's Inferno. Well, it is nothing like Dante. This book is just BAD. Seriously, I felt gross reading it. Maybe I've grown up and just don't get it anymore, but I don't think it's that. I still enjoy dark books, but at least give me a story. There is no real story here, just nasty things piled on for shock value. And Madison, the main character? Never once does she come across as a 13 year old, not even a highly intelligent one. I don't buy it for a second. She sounds like she is 30, easily. I wanted to throw my book across the room every time I had to read "And, yes, I know the word ____" and all versions of Trollopy McTrollop and Whorey Vanderwhore. Really? Just STOP. Also, I'm pretty sure modern 13 year olds do not regularly say "Ye gods!"
First third I enjoyed. I like hearing people’s take on hell that isn’t just fire and brimstone. I was bugged the second she said a longer word and followed it with “yes I know the word *blank*. It didn’t shock me and I lost interest. The. In ended on a cliffhanger and realised I didn’t care.