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Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

12 reviews

shanebergman's review against another edition

1.25

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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novellearts's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I started reading this with no prior knowledge of the plot line and grabbed it simply because the cover was "pretty." To say I was surprised would be a massive understatement. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got. With as pretty as this cover is, the story certainly is not. This story won't be palatable for many readers.

This book was pretty sick to read but I really enjoyed it. I devoured this book (pun intended). With how morally horrible the two main characters were, I was surprised to actually find myself loving them. The dark humor and conversation between the two had me chuckling. Some (most) lines and scenes throughout had me audibly saying "what the fuck?" I think part of the appeal of this book to me was how incredibly outlandish everything felt.

Also, a special shoutout to reading yet another book set in Ohio. I've decided that I need to start a tally of horror books that choose Ohio as their origin.

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readingwithgoose's review against another edition

1.5

dark fast-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The main character was such an annoying edgelord, I rolled my eyes so many times. If Morrison did that on purpose in a self-aware way, that's kind of brilliant; but if we're supposed to think the narrator is actually cool and ~dark~ and different, then this book is a massive failure. Very "we live in a society".

The twist at the very end was whatever, but the scene that was supposed to be the most ~shocking and crazy~ has been done before so it didn't end up shocking me.

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ldy_stnhrt's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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heatherdarby88's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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: Yes

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voxvenati's review against another edition

1.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hmm…where to start? I’ll say, I think the cover was gorgeous and tricked me into thinking this was going to have some real meat (ba dum tch) to it. Foolish of me. I did give it a single star instead of zero bc it was so fast to read, and I kept hoping it would get better.

Yes, there’s gore. Yes, there’s sex. Yes, there are shocking things! Was any of it done well? No.

There was no attempt at atmosphere and there were no vibes, so this didn’t even tip the scales of making me squeamish, or horrified. The main character sounds like he’s a little boy half the time. Even as satire, this just doesn’t have a lot to it. Where is the commentary? This is not a horror so much as an edgy comedy.

The prose was childish and some stylistic choices were annoying. Another reviewer summed it up perfectly:

This book is basically a teen edgelord trying to be edgy and shocking while broaching philosophical topics…The problem is the philosophy addressed is about as deep as a can of tuna…

If you want to read something for shock value’s sake with baby’s first examination of being a social outcast, fine. You do you. Check those trigger warnings and then check it out. But there’s not a whole lot going on here beyond a teenager’s edgy splatterpunk attempt at being deep. Go girl, give us nothing.

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afinalgirl's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 60%

there are so many books that are on my TBR that i’m not quite sure who said what to make me add them. so many books i don’t even know a thing about but they’re there so at some point past-me wanted to read them. that means that there’s a lot of books i pick up that i am going into blind.

this was a wild book to go into blind ಥ‿ಥ

first of all, please make sure you’re reading trigger warnings if you need to. this book is about a necrophile that meets a baby eater and is so stupid messed up. what was i even expecting once i started reading it?

it was an easy enough read, ignoring the subject matter, and kind of amusing in parts - but i wasn’t even halfway through the book before i was well over being reminded that he fucks dead girls and she eats dead babies. I GET IT. i get it, i got it when it was first mentioned. it’s honestly every other page that it’s mentioned.

i had to DNF this one though, it got to a point that was just unnecessary to be honest.

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peachieko's review against another edition

1.0

dark fast-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book was so full of itself

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kklosowski09's review against another edition

4.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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whalefall's review against another edition

0.5

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I read this book out of curiosity, because I'd been told it was disturbing, and it was, a little bit, but mostly just... boring. It was gross, sure, but it was all just shock value, hinging on being as gross as possible. The narration was interesting at times, and it at least moved quickly, but I honestly would have found it more disturbing and uncomfortable if there had been at least a /little/ subtlety to it.

The main two characters were at least a little plausible, but

I couldn't find the woman who got off on being raped believable at /all/. I could understand convincing herself she liked it as a defense mechanism, but that wasn't how it was played

. It was another point that was clearly just for shock factor.

I did decide to give a half-point, because I at least found the ending entertaining. That was just about the only point anything was left to the audience's imagination.

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