Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

80 reviews

ddryden825's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

skogsheks's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Dysphoria

calcified_boner's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

Deliciously gross, practically parasitic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Hate crime, Incest, Sexual content, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Abandonment, and Classism

gaeliloveweiss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

shawcrit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, and Dysphoria

Minor: Incest, Rape, Suicide, and Murder

sthesp_2024's review against another edition

dark tense 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

4.5

It’s an experience I highly recommend you be emotionally prepared for before reading. It will make you feel things so strongly you will almost feel like your were personally hurt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Gore

readingwithgoose's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Some parts of this were reallly strong, and if you're looking for something gross that's also well-written, this'll do it for you. I think some of the more experimental parts went over my head tbh, but I still somehow couldn't put this one down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Dysphoria

antimony's review against another edition

dark tense

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

4.5

really really good..when the reviews say alison rumfitt is a master of disgust they are so right bc her books affect me more viscerally than any other horror books i’ve read but in such a way that you can’t tear yourself away from them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Pregnancy

Major content warning for parasites

hamletslover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lrgluck's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

Alison Rumfitt once again crafted a brilliant critique of fascism through the lens of body horror

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Incest, and Dysphoria

Minor: Xenophobia and Antisemitism