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Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

242 reviews

andyjnmcrae's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

Tell me I’m worthless is a beautifully tragic book about traditionalist white male authority and it’s use of fear to cause a rise in facism and increasingly violent oppression. It primarily deals with the rule this authority has in sexual violence against women, violence against minorities, radicalisation and the pinning of minorities against one another  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt

emrosa318's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racism

mothfemme's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia

solasuaine's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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: Body horror, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

ivan_tw's review

dark emotional sad medium-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

5.0

What a masterpiece. It's hard to believe the author is so young and then is her first book. Timely, disturbing, and incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and Grief

ruddsreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cwynne's review

The book is good and exactly what it is and wants to be, I am just not in the place to meet it there rn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, and Transphobia

szpetot's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Dysphoria, and Classism

mxajlikesbooks's review

dark tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

laurenvoice's review

dark tense slow-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

2.0

First of all, I appreciate the content warning at the start of this book because this book sure needed it. Tell Me I'm Worthless was dark and uncomfortable. It was an examination of society, and society is bleak looking.

However, the writing style was not for me. Alison Rumfitt's writing was very depressing, a little too depressing. You can tell she takes influence from Shirley Jackson in her writing. However, Rumfitt didn't have that claustrophobic feeling in her writing, which I like in a haunted house type story. Unfortunately, that depressive writing style just wasn't for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racism, Rape, Transphobia, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Toxic friendship