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Vértestvérek by Ania Ahlborn

37 reviews

postmortem's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Murder, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Child abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Gore, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

naddl0r's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Blood, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Animal death, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Violence, Stalking, Kidnapping, Incest, Gaslighting, Death, and Cannibalism

muddymind's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Child death, Death, Blood, Body horror, Misogyny, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs, Vomit, Rape, Stalking, Abandonment, and Pedophilia

jacqelaine00's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Torture, Physical abuse, Rape, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Gun violence, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Drug use, Grief, and Misogyny

lizardgod's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Incest, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexism, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Gore, Grief, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, and War

spark_lit_the_tree's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Cannibalism, Homophobia, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape and Incest

astoriareader's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

SYNOPSIS:

• A family of crazy serial killers living in the Appalachian mountains.

TRIGGER WARNINGS:

• animal cruelty / animal abuse 
• rape
• incest
• cannibalism
• murder
• necrophilia  
• child abduction / child abuse 
• murder
• violence 
• homophobia
• ableism

MY THOUGHTS

• This book was torture porn, and not a good book.
• The twists are predictable, none of the characters are likable, and the pacing is slow. Not a single redeemable character in the book. Ending was not satisfied.
• I am not usually bothered by reading “dark” books, but this book simply added disturbing content for no reason. The author does 0 character development, and fails to flush out a single motivation for doing anything. As far as I could tell, the violence was added as a way to cover up the lack of plot and story.
• There’s 0 backstory for how this family came to be this way…?!
• The writing is not good.
• The book is soooo drawn out & repetitive. As mentioned, there’s no back story explored, so the book is literally just pages & pages of repetition.
• By the end of the book, you’re screaming at the pages at the main character, “ENOUGH ALREADY OMGGGG”
• My two stars may even be too generous here. 

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️2 stars. Yikes. Disappointing. Read trigger warnings I included, as this is torture porn with no attempt to be a real story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Ableism, Alcoholism, and Sexual assault

l1braryofalexandra's review against another edition

dark slow-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

1.0

As a West Virginian, this is a story that has been told way too many times for it to be done in a nuanced way. This was a rehashing of so many stereotypes written by someone who has obviously not done their research on Appalachia. These ideas about people from Appalachia, and in particular West Virginia, still harm the people there today. There was no reason this couldn’t have taken place in any other “middle of nowhere”. It’s just overdone, and while this was billed as “horrific” the scariest part was the over-abundance of played-out tropes and uninspired writing. I beg people to stop with the incest hillbilly cannibals.

I could be willing to even look past all of that if the story wasn’t so boring and predictable. Completely disappointed by this and the horror is mediocre at best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Rape, Incest, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Pedophilia

kryskross's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Incest, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault, Animal death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Homophobia

bxtskr's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

please read the content warnings for this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Incest, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Vomit