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Woom by Duncan Ralston

49 reviews

quartz's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Death, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Drug use, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs

necroplasm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

the absolute definition of "sexual but not sexy"........ still thinkin about that ending what the fuck man

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual content, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Violence, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

cursivewolf's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Had a mix of humor and horror. I had to put the book down at one chapter, which was arguably worse than the others (aside from the ending). You definitely need a strong stomach for this one, but it wasn’t as horrific as I thought (still VERY horrific, though.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, and Violence

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Violence, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Abortion, Excrement, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Racial slurs, Fatphobia, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, and Infertility

Minor: Vomit

sugarmountain's review against another edition

dark 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

1.0

shit was mid tbh 🥱

edit: you know what. im coming back to this to speak on it. its a gross out shock horror book; hardly scary, mostly just bleh. however, looking back at the plot - there is one, surprisingly - i feel like there is an underlying theme here and its easily the most reprehensible part of the book. main character is such a poor little lad, look how much he's suffered - he's super traumatized and mentally ill!

so he rapes an innocent woman, and she pities him for it.

. sure, its just a story, but are we supposed to empathize with it? with him? what exactly is the idea here? we all saw the ending coming,

although i expected the woman to be consenting to the matter (thought they make take the route of 'we've become mutually enlightened'), and was pretty disappointed to see the rape route taken just for the sake of shocking the readers. ok, so youve written a story where a traumatized man re-traumatizes a woman after she opens up to him. great. hurt people hurt people. soooo deep and edgy. but then she feels bad for him, she wants to take care of him? the woman is violated and subsequently forced into a position where her assailant is now dependent on her, a literal manchild, and she agrees to this, because... maternal urges? we're not given a reason for why anyone would consent to that. what the fuck?

it should go without saying that this book lacks nuance and does zero introspection. it has no commentary to make on the issues it depicts (unless you count a white author using the nword several times in his shitty horror book which... ehhh). 

i should specify i went into this knowing exactly what it was and got what i expected. i dont give a fuck about cancel culture. this isnt a concern so much as an observation. i do stand by my point that you can't call it a horror book if it isn't scary, and copious amounts of shit does not equal scary. well, nah, it does. but in a book... not so much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Excrement and Drug abuse

Minor: Racial slurs

perplexed's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

So I did mostly enjoy Woom, I think. There were 100% a couple of absolutely toe curling moments, but, I think I may have been reading too much splatter punk recently because nothing came as *super* shocking. 

There was a slight twist (more of a reveal) that worked really well, but I did find a fair few of the stories to be a little predictable. 

Also shout out to Shyla, the plus sized prostitute who is apparently colour blind cause girl those flags you were missing? They were red as heck yo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Toxic relationship, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Gore, Drug abuse, Drug use, Body horror, and Addiction

Please don't read this unless you've got a strong stomach omg

kenzielireads's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Excrement, Infertility, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Racism, and Racial slurs

Extreme horror

dromedaryreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

3.75

I really enjoy how creative this idea is, even when it's kind of gross. I was able to finish it in one sitting and it's definitely not boring. The end was a shock for sure and I can certainly say I haven't seen anything like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Excrement, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Fatphobia

Minor: Racial slurs

gxsobes's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Rape, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Gore, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicide, and Racial slurs