Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

4 reviews

vyralvyris's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

Such a fun book, really fun view on what is and is not a sin to the eyes of demons and people.  Always love a cult story.  The only thing keeping it front a 5 is the pacing is a bit of a drag at the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Kidnapping

Minor: Deadnaming, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Confinement, and Gun violence

If you don't like bugs in horror, I wouldn't fully recommend. It isn't super graphic, but if insects in people is a trigger, fully do not recommend reading this however good it is.

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.

menderash's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I've been looking forward to this book since it was announced! I'm a big buckaroo for Tingle's tinglers, but also a die hard horror fan, so this was an obvious pick. I loved the first person narration from the perspective of an autistic person (as written by an autistic author!), the straightforward pragmatism brought the supernatural horrors into a very stark light, very much highlighted the gruesomeness. The plot was a fresh twist on an underutilized real life horror with a very interesting delivery. My only caveat that prevents this from getting a full five stars is that the fast pace felt TOO fast. Part of it was warranted by having such an efficient protagonist, but I felt like we weren't given enough time to sit with a plot development or emotional revelation before the next one arrived, and it kind of spoiled the gravity. I think if this book was twice as long, or even a quarter longer, the pacing would be much improved.

All in all solid 4 outta 5. Tingle does it again! I wish he'd write longer books, though!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Vomit, Death, Homophobia, Car accident, Religious bigotry, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Torture, and Sexism

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Gore, Murder, Forced institutionalization, and Body horror

Minor: Animal cruelty

Insects are heavily involved with th body horror - I would recommend avoiding if that is triggering for you.