Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Apsēstie by Chuck Palahniuk

45 reviews

charlottemarie17's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense 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: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Pregnancy

grp101'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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I’m not sure how I felt about it. It definitely had disturbing content, but it left me personally less disturbed and more absolutely baffled? I spent the whole time wondering who our narrator was, or if the narrator of the non-in-universe-story portions was meant to be their collective voice (an interesting idea that I really like). My main issue is that while I don’t have to LIKE any particular character in a book I read, I tend to want to connect with at least one and this book moved from person to person too fast for me to get personally invested. It may be better on a second read?
Also if you have a trigger it is in this book. I don’t think Storygraph has enough triggers in their CW section to cover them all and even if they did 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment

Any trigger you can think of and more, this book has it, I guarantee

mrpetej's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark 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: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

_livi_pa___'s review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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First book to ever make me nauseous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

scheierndevin's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

jillian_hope02's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

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, Confinement, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

penne_lane's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark slow-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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Is suffering the meaning of life? Read this book, and you still won't know the answer. But you sure will have thought about it a lot. Dark, existential, disturbing, absurdist, and extremely graphic; I actually really enjoyed this book as a whole. This is the first one of his books I've ever read. His writing style is extremely evocative, and I was hooked right from the beginning, even though the pace was fairly slow. Reading this felt like watching a giant, intricate and beautiful puzzle come together, only to realize it's an image of some guy mooning you. But in a good way? Hard to explain, but worth the experience if you can stomach it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Abortion

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

parboiledlentils's review against another edition

2.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder

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