Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

19 reviews

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

machewson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

Wow!  I consider myself to be a fairly slow reader, but I started and finished this book in one day.  It's not particularly long and I could not put it down.  The journey we go on in this book of self acceptance and love is absolutely incredible.  If you only read one book this year or even this decade make it this one.  I don't want to get into any spoilers, but if you are a queer person I can't recommend this book highly enough.  It feels cathartic, loving and incredible from start to finish.  The mystery and suspense absolutely keep you glued to this book until the last sentence.  I know this is rambling but my god this book has me feeling all kinds of ways.  This is very easily going in my top five all time reads.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Car accident, Confinement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Murder

quoth_thepaperraven's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

Loved this book. I would’ve liked the end to be stretched out. It felt too cinematic. And while the audience already understood

that the demons would go after the camp workers

it would’ve been nice to see

rose figure that would slower

in order to build tension. Otherwise it was great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, Gore, Homophobia, Medical trauma, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Drug use and Abandonment

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.

trashgobby's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, and Homophobia

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Abandonment, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Torture, Gaslighting, Ableism, Gun violence, and Drug use

shelfdeprecation's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Body horror

Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, and Car accident

Minor: Cursing

snerp_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

3.75

Felt a little slow in the beginning, and a bit cliched, which made me struggle to finish it in a reasonable time. However, once I picked it back up and got to the last bit, I really enjoyed it. The concept and world building is interesting,

and makes me want to know more about the demons and their world, and just how the church obtained them in the first place.

I loved the incorporation of Rose's autism into the narrative of the story, and it was used in a way I've never seen in a novel before. The Rose biblical verses interspersed were also nice and added to the overall themes. 

All in all, I think it's a good YA novel, and if you like the YA genre, give it a read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Gaslighting, and Body horror

Minor: Gun violence and Death

chaoticquill's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Homophobia, and Gaslighting

clichemarker's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

This book felt like Grace Chastity meets Lost Causes of Bleak Creek.
While some parts were a bit predictable,

That twist at the beginning of the love interest dying was crazy.

And that world building! Like you're introduced to these creatures, and they're given a solid set of rules and characteristics, and that shit stayed consistent!
The autism rep is great (being explicitly stated) and you can't help but root for these main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Body horror, Gaslighting, Ableism, and Abandonment

orizenda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I feel like I can’t be entirely fair in my opinion of this book right now. I really liked it in the beginning but about halfway thru i had to put it down because of time constraints and lack of motivation and i just kind of lost interest after that. also i’m not religious like at all so that makes things not click as. much with me i think

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, Gore, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

I’m not sure if this counts as a spoiler, but there are instances of bugs being… ejected from people