Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

4 reviews

jjjreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Bullying, Death, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

kyrstin_p1989's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

The last 30 pages were interesting and unexpected. Everything else was convoluted and boring and hard to follow. Lots of words I had to look up, some Japanese and others just really obscure English words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Abandonment, Torture, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The audiobook narrator ( Suehyla El-Attar) did a phenomenal job with the dark subject matter. The story gets very dark so if anything in the content warnings is close to something that will upset you proceed with caution. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Murder, and Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness, Blood, Alcohol, Infidelity, and Torture

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.5

It’s hard to even review this book since it was so short and quick. A lot happened but it almost seemed like reading a book by skipping every few chapters. I wanted a lot more info and development but the overall story and premise was so interesting (which is why I wanted more!). This almost felt like a story out of “scary stories to read in the dark,” which, in my mind, is a great place for a horror book/story to try and land.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Murder, Torture, and Toxic friendship