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sarah984's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Body horror
Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Drug use, Vomit, Ableism, and Excrement
keen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content
Moderate: Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Confinement
Minor: Excrement and Blood
kurumipanda's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Gore, Mental illness, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
Moderate: Grief, Blood, Drug use, and Vomit
Minor: Confinement
judassilver's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Self harm
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness
Minor: Gun violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, Homophobia, and Excrement
funfamilyvideos's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Excrement, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Confinement
stephanieluxton's review against another edition
- 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
2.25
The middle of this book is so boring. I felt like nothing that happened in the entire bulk of the book meant anything. There was extra characters we didn't need. The spooks basically stop entirely til the end. Then it ends and I didn't appreciate the level of ambiguity there was. It felt anticlimactic. This book could have been way shorter.
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Excrement, Bullying, and Blood
jan_coco_day's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Many stories in the horror genre describe a terror that disrupts the routine lives of normal people, putting a strain on relationships that the characters need to overcome in order to save themselves and each other. But there is nothing to save between Nakota and Nicholas from page one. "Nakota would rot differently from other people; she would be the first to admit it," is a *loving* description from Nicholas. Their relationship is about as toxic as you can get. The Funhole doesn't work on normal people like it works on the already depressed, anxious, narcissistic, and suicidal.
The temptation for any review is to try to describe the Funhole. But it defies description because, while it is *something*, it is not a thing. It is an absence. Does it give anything? Does it take anything? It certainly wants ("want you") but its desires are incomprehensible. Nakota describes the Funhole as "a process." It is neither creative nor destructive, but both at the same time: transformative with no end product. And its medium is people. All the characters are crustpunk artists, but the narrator and focus of the novel is Nicholas, a noncreative entity who considers himself a failed poet--one who either never writes, or destroys what he is written while drunk so that he (or the reader) can read what he has written. Thus begins a downward spiral over what will destroy Nicholas first: the Funhole, or himself?
Ultimately, the story offers no answers to the questions it arouses--as a novel with a hole at its center should be.</spoiler)
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Blood