Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Apsēstie by Chuck Palahniuk

31 reviews

ideasoforder's review against another edition

1.5

challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was not for me.  I respect that there is some artistry to the writing, but I think the entire premise is problematic and not in a fun, "look at me I'm trying to be trangressive" kind of way.  It's not biting enough to be good satire, and it's not scary enough to be good horror; to me it was mostly a failure.  That being said, there are people who LOVE this book so definitely give it a shot if you like boundary-pushing, body horror books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Murder, Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Sexual harassment

This book is very graphic.

There is a substantial amount of body horror and mentions of sexual and other violence

It is almost a guarantee something in it will be triggering or repellent to you.

necroplasm's review against another edition

2.5

dark slow-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

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somehow found the frame narrative to be more interesting than the actual short stories, which is something an anthology story has straight up never managed to do for me before! not really sure if that's really a compliment, but like,, it's something! i think i need to take a break from reading anything written by palahniuk for a few months or so, because i could handle his writing style for the 200ish pages it took for me to finish fight club, but the constant cynicism and moderate-to-severe edginess got kinda grating over the course of 400 pages. anyways almost all these people were just absolutely terrible! watching them go insane was interesting but i hope they all died in the end!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Transphobia, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Miscarriage

sinisterbeard's review against another edition

3.0

dark funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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What a bunch of morons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Just like, all the content warnings.

introverted_reads's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious 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: Complicated

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pissing blood and cannibalism my two favourite things

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy

Minor: Terminal illness

soggycheez's review against another edition

1.5

dark

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

savagedaughter's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I absolutely love the concept of this book. A writers retreat. Sounds so simple but turns into a retreat full of sabotage. The main story line gets extremely dark as the book goes on. Tons of trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Miscarriage, Self harm, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail

mandi_lea's review against another edition

3.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

volatilevampire's review against another edition

2.5

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy

gress's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident

Entire story that misgenders a woman (whether they are trans or not is up to interpretation)

and leads to SA/rape of that woman

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booksofautumn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail