Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

9 reviews

punk_flower_child's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

Horrifying. Riveting. So amazing. It really seems like the person who wrote it knows what being deeply involved in a church is like

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Cursing, Homophobia, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Lesbophobia, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Death, Gaslighting, and Medical content

samferree's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

There is not a shred of doubt that Conversion Therapy advocates would do this if they could.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Gun violence, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Slavery, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Death, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Child death, Hate crime, and Torture

vixenreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A call to love in the face of self-righteousness and wilful ignorance, this book is horrifying, entertaining, and incredibly loving to those who need it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Homophobia, Sexism, Outing, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Gore, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Blood, Body horror, Violence, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Car accident, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, and Misogyny

Be aware of people vomiting bugs out of their mouths, gay conversion therapy, using religion for hate and oppression, and demon imagery.

emmehooks's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia, Torture, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Body horror, Misogyny, Blood, Physical abuse, Car accident, Sexism, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Kidnapping and Gun violence

epiphanic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

justmehayleyb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Gaslighting, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Outing, Torture, Mental illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Medical content, and Murder

katietregs's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I loved this book. It really helped me take a look back at my own religious trauma, and I wish I had a book like this when I was in high school. I did feel like the end felt a little rushed.

I was so excited for Rose to reunite with Willow and then we didn’t really get to see them spend any time together. And we didn’t see Saul reunite with his partner.

But once again, Chuck Tingle reminds us that loving each other should always be the end goal, and loving someone by trying to change them is never the way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Homophobia, Body horror, Murder, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Medical content, Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

No graphic sexual content

harpoonholly's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Audiobook read by Mara Wilson. Wilson is a fantastic narrator, switching between the characters and narrative with subtlety. 

I really enjoyed this and I'm excited for future horror by Dr. Chuck Tingle. It's a slightly rough first outing (as a novel; Tingle also wrote a horror novella that I haven't read yet), but shows a great deal of frightening potential. 

My only complaint is

we don't get satisfying closure with Rose's parents. I feel like her dad is a more prominent antagonist and a very disturbing one. When Rose asks him about her missing bedroom door, Rose's description of how her body was responding to the tension shift was jarring. Another small gripe is that lead pastor Peter Bend should have been a more looming background presence for the final big bad to be really satisfying

, but we can't have it all. 

This'll be a reread for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Gore, Homophobia, Body horror, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

nixieba25f's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Honestly I’m just ecstatic to read an autistic character who knows she’s autistic written by an autistic author. Even though my Way and Rose’s Way are very different, I still felt more at home in her head than I have been with any other character in my 25 years of voracious reading. And as a horror fan and queer person, I was compelled by the narrative and pleased at the avoidance of certain tropes (cough bury your gays cough). I definitely would have loved a more extended novel where I could spend more time falling in love with these characters and drawing out the tension, but Camp Damascus was a perfectly good snack-sized story.

Thank you Dr. Chuck for proving love once again!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Vomit, Ableism, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Violence