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Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

112 reviews

eldritch_archivist's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gore, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Violence, and Car accident

mixee22's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

mosshroomish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

this is one of my FAVORITE horror novels, hands down. a fantastic mix of religious trauma and the supernatural that keeps you on the edge of your seat. we love to see gay people winning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Torture

emizulu's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

I loved this book. Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and fulfilling. Interesting world building, at just the kind of pace that lets you put together a few of the background pieces yourself. Would definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Torture, Violence, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Confinement, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Outing, Physical abuse, Biphobia, Dysphoria, Child abuse, Car accident, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Religious bigotry

errie's review against another edition

dark

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Homophobia, Violence, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Torture

princess_marie's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Murder, Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death, Religious bigotry, and Blood

Minor: Abandonment and Car accident

pacifickat's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.5

*full review coming...*

"Something is wrong in Neverton, and that something isn't me." -Rose

"Don't worry, Rose. I've got you. I've always got you." -Dad

"Let there be Rose." -Rose

Content Warnings:

Religious abuse,

Demonic possession, Demons, Hell, Eternal conscious torment,

Guilt, Shame, Fear, Thought stopping, Brainwashing, Cults and cult ideologies, Gay conversion therapy, Confinement, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Blood, Death, Homophobia, Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Body horror, Toxic relationships, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Car accident, Child abuse, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Drug use, Amnesia and memory loss

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Drug use, Grief, Torture, Violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, Blood, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gore, and Vomit

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcohol

Religious abuse,

demonic possession, demons, hell, eternal conscious torment

, guilt, shame, fear, thought stopping, brainwashing, cults, gay conversion therapy, gay conversion camps

mheffner3031's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, and Death

hexentart's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

*internal screaming*

Absolutely. Horrifying. Evil.

Oh, and demons too.

A gripping story of an evil cult masquerading as a church, the torture and abuse of young queer folk in the name of salvation, and
the power of love.

This book was A LOT and definitely not an easy read (mind your squicks), but it was all worth it. 

The ending was simply poetic and very satisfying. 😏

This was my first read of this author, but I'll definitely be looking into their other horror novels as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Violence, Torture, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Stalking, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Slavery, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Car accident

semisinful's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

I really loved this book,

seeing an autistic character so well represented was the icing on the cake of what makes this book special and important to me. I don’t see a lot of queer horror with happy endings and this just made me smile a lot.

Thank you Chuck Tingle.

This book was delightful and made me cry every time her chosen family accepted her autistic quirks. I’m lucky to have a family and a chosen family that accept me for my quirks and seeing it represented this way in fiction is so important.

Thank you for this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Homophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Sexism, and Sexual assault