Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

24 reviews

sunsetcity's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, and Violence

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Gore, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Torture, Misogyny, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, and Forced institutionalization

oliviafaye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

ohkmurr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

One of my favorite things about this book is the way it's physically constructed. The book itself is designed to look like an IKEA catalog. It has insert pages with employee reviews from management and excerpts from the employee guidelines. And, in classic Hendrix style, it's what you get if you set Office Space in a ghost/zombie universe. (I will forever be floored by his ability to combine opposite genres and tropes and still create a cohesive, emotionally charged story.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Rats... so many rats.