Reviews tagging 'Child death'

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

15 reviews

lizardgod's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Kudos to a book making me queasy? That's about all it had going for it, nothing really to write home about.

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theliteraryhooker's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious 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

This remains one of my top 5 favourite books. The writing is so, so, SO GOOD! Equal parts beautiful and disgusting, with scenes that were still burned into my memory from my first read back in 2019. This book is just a horrifying and gorgeously written descent into madness, and I devoured (get it?) every word.

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cabeswaren's review against another edition

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dark fast-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

5.0


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0ogazanami's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-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

3.75

The secrets I locked down in the cellar of my gut have crawled away to expose their horrors into the light.

The book does a fantastic job of describing the horrifying nature of intrusive thoughts, and how sometimes, when they're left unsupervised within a mind that was not made to harbor them nor deal with them correctly, it can lead to a very disturbing and grotesque reality. The way many thoughts and feelings are described are in such a way that I felt so genuinely understood; the way it touches on such a shunned upon mindset and experience of the disturbing and extreme was comforting, in a gross fucked up kind of way.

However, the book itself is not at all what I wanted from it. I started it with hopes and dreams of reading something so utterly disgusting and revolting, based simply on the experience of others in the reveiws, and yet I came out of it... unsatisfied. If you get grossed out easily, or at the very least easier than I do, and want a quick read of something unsettling, then I'm sure this book is perfect for you. But for someone who maybe fails to get that feeling of disgust from any form of  fictional media that you may get in a real-life situation, this book may have very little effect on you like it has with me.

Over all, I believe it's a very good read and was most definitely worth the time and money I spent on it.

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heartachesbi's review against another edition

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dark sad tense medium-paced
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  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75


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keddy4306's review against another edition

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dark fast-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
HAHAHA only read this to induce vomiting

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dosxhime's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0


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offtheraels's review against another edition

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

4.5


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cat_d's review against another edition

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challenging 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

5.0


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perkyanda's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

Whaaaaaaaaaaat

So normally I don’t really love the
women be crazy
genre of horror, or
gross out
horror, but here they join together perfectly in a <spoiler >gross disgusting sad fucked up tense whirlwind of ewwwww. </spoiler >

I can’t recommend this to anyone. It was literally nauseating. But it felt authentic and real and rough. 

The Dr. Fawning thing
was a bit obvious too early for the reveal to have proper impact, but overall, I loved it bc it did show that deep inside she had juuuust enough self awareness to almost be able to help herself. But not enough, not enough.</spoiler >

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