Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

12 reviews

medini_l's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Sexual content, and Excrement

Moderate: Toxic friendship

tabithaecw's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Body horror, Dysphoria, Confinement, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit

f18's review

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Vomit, and Blood

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Gore

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Misogyny and Homophobia

freckled_frog_boi's review

4.0

What a disgusting, filthy little book. I want a hard copy.
urine count: 9

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

veelaughtland's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Toxic friendship

tinyjude's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

A very lyrical, weird, gross and avant-garde book. I am still processing what I just read and  trying to understand what happened. Either way, it was an experience. Trippy mushrooms, creepy settings and some homosexual activity (I love this combination). The writing style is very good, although some of the most grotesque imagery conjured by the writer will surely haunt me for a while (apples no longer look the same)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

fraise's review

reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Body horror

florecita_lectora's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Dark. Psychedelic. Moist. And so much pee. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship

savvylit's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

This novella is absolutely ripe with lush, sensory imagery. Hval describes sounds in particular in a visceral way that is unlike any other author I have ever read. Carral and Jo's relationship develops into one big, queer fever dream. Their interactions were so sensual yet bizarre that I often wondered whether Carral actually existed. In fact, Jo herself questions the reality of her own experiences to the point where her narration becomes entirely unreliable. I truly don't know what really happened in this book and I'm fine with that. This whole novella would have been a five star read for me except for the excessive descriptions of urination, which I found jarring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault