Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

43 reviews

abril_chavez's review

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Mental illness, Bullying, Gaslighting, Violence, Cursing, Death, Body horror, Hate crime, Sexual content, Torture, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, Body shaming, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Hate crime, and Genocide

booking_along's review against another edition

1.5

this was not for me. 

i do not like horror that is mostly shock value, crude and feels like it forced a specific narrative and opinion -be it one that shadows real life, reflects the authors option or is simply the loudest public voices reflected back at this particular time. 


also i felt a but as if this was purposefully badly written? 
and i didn’t like that either. 

look horror for me can be a lot of things to be good or for me to see why other will love it even if i personally didn’t enjoy it as much. 

but it had to have something that works:
- the writing has be what makes the story. be it that it’s unique or different or tells a story in a way that just makes you flip the pages no matter how horrific the scenes your reading are. 
-the characters make the story and you want to see what happens to and with them.
- the suspense horror that builds and builds and while it doesn’t need to be a new kind of horror or even a uniquely told one… if the suspense is there and makes it horrific? that’s horror! 


what i don’t think makes a book horror even if it’s horrific is using slurs, being purposefully crude and hurtful or downgrading towards groups that already face those things every day. 
we don’t need more hateful stories against anyone LGBT+ or women or black people! 
and i felt like that is what the book was doing. it just kept picking  and picking and picking and freaking picking at those topics but not in a good or even horrific way but just doing it. 
now it could be that it was that kind of read for me because the constant and completely unnecessary slurs at every page, that i didn’t feel the writing was anything great… it didn’t do anything? which sounds so mean and hurtful and i hate saying that but this book felt a bit like a ranting internet hate speech to just hear themselves screech into the void!

maybe that was what the author wanted to achieve. 
then points to them! they achieved their goal of that. 

if that wasn’t the intended style… i have no idea what it was suppose to do. 

for me this book tried to be shocking and edging and one of those reads that feel uncomfortable  with showing how the current times treat some people. 

but for me it didn’t get there and fell not only short but didn’t even mange to come near it. 

not my type of book clearly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Cursing, Death, Lesbophobia, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Biphobia, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

elenavarg's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

It’s been a while since a horror book managed to truly horrify me, but this one certainly did. It had an overpowering sense of dread through-out as well as some truly terrifying scenes. It managed to walk the thin line between misery porn/exploitation and horror imagery.

I’m taking off one star because some of the more stream of conciousness chapters were not for my liking (they’re very hard for me to read, so I don’t enjoy them as a stylistic choice), one particularly on the nose scene of swastika-related body-horror (the scene was so absurd it made me laugh) and the weird, off-putting feeling I get when I’m not quite sure of an author’s ethnicity while their work discussed racism (I couldn’t find out, if Rumfitt herself is Jewish and/or brown; if so, this critisism is totally unrelated and unfounded).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Body horror, Hate crime, Blood, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Rape, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Racism, Death, Deadnaming, Cursing, Xenophobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Islamophobia, Grief, Confinement, Sexual content, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

bowlingforboots's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual assault

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

A phenomenal novel, if not entirely enjoyable, it is a harrowing exploration of trauma through bigotry and intergenerational fascism can lead to prejudice and self-loathing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Cursing, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Outing, Death, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Deadnaming, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Vomit, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, War, and Excrement

Minor: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

Be prepared for instances of INCEL culture, terrorism, bombing, disturbing hate symbols, TERF culture, woman-on-woman sexual assault, serial killing, self-hatred, strap-on sex, the loss of a friend, and public sex.

augusts_2020's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, Outing, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Rape, Colonisation, Death, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Sexism, Xenophobia, Blood, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Pregnancy, Racism, Suicide, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Torture

wylovat's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Vomit, Body shaming, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Body horror, Confinement, Dysphoria, Gore, Cursing, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Deadnaming, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Toxic friendship

l_will8889's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.25

I had a really hard time getting through the 140 pages it took to get to the plot that was described on the back of the book. Two whole pages were devoted to transcribing a 4chan post with minimal punctuation, when we got maybe two sentences of lead-in to what should have been a shattering plot twist had there been enough build up. Ila’s perspective and motivations got lost, which made the events of the return to the House and the epilogue feel rushed. The pace and editing didn’t do the story justice (especially if you’re someone who has a hard time with poetry or reading when there aren’t a lot of paragraph breaks). 

That being said, the characters were compelling and difficult in a way that felt honest to their experiences. I loved the literal dual POV moment describing the absolute horror of what really went down between Alice and Ila in the House; the two column format was so unique and gripping I wish I could have read both simultaneously. Unfortunately, I just didn’t find myself enjoying the rest of this book as much as I wanted to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, Body horror, Rape, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Grief, Alcoholism, Addiction, Classism, Self harm, and Suicide

bookishfaye's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

What a brilliant & rageful albeit explicitly horrific & triggering exploration of trauma, fascism, transness, transphobia, racism etc utilized through haunted house metaphor. A really powerful read holy moly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Racism, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Body horror, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Self harm, Violence, Sexism, Excrement, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Body shaming, Cursing, Deportation, and Dysphoria