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NOS4A2: Nosferatu by Joe Hill

61 reviews

lilyvonshtupp's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

You can tell he is Stephen King's son with this book. He even mentions Pennywise's Circus. Wonderfully flawed characters who grow and one who doesn't. Vic and Charlie make great adversaries. I loved when Vic realized that Charlie genuinely thinks he is doing good and that he really loves the children. I love that Vic is not an angel of a hero, but in some ways an anti-hero. She makes a lot of mistakes, but overcomes them in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

spookybenji's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Torture, Dementia, Grief, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sberry225's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

This book was like a fever dream. Joe Hill has an amazing ability to transport you to the past and present with the intricate descriptions and details. I feel while this book got off to a slower start, it really takes the time to build the characters and then the climax hits and you're fully invested. The villains were HORRIFYING as well. Check trigger warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, and Blood

Minor: Sexual assault and Death of parent

shaylross's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This was good, but a little too long that I felt some parts dragged. I thought the concept was interesting, but I do personally wish that it was as supernatural as it was. This didn’t really creep me out and there was only like two or three kind of gross moments ( mostly relating to Bing). A lot of the characters were actually really funny. I also didn’t really love the ending to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

louiepotterbook's review against another edition

I was too stressed and looked up what happened which made me angry 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ktboyle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, and Medical trauma

weirdow's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Hill has a way of making fantastical settings and happenings seem realistic. Definitely some terrible stuff, a lot of graphic sexual violence (mostly "off page"). Good characters and well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Pedophilia

fireweed15's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

 Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and I'm slowly learning to love horror reading, so the combination that is reading NOS4A2 was probably the natural result of that pairing. I loved this! The characters of this story are phenomenal. Hill does a wonderful job crawling around in the characters' heads and giving them depth. Vic is a fascinating, flawed protagonist, and Manx is a charming, terrifying villain. Even the secondary antagonist, Bing Partridge, was interesting, almost childlike, which made his role as "the Gasmask Man" and his horrific acts of service to Manx all the more unsettling. The plot itself builds on a low-medium pace, but when it picks up, it quickly becomes one hell of a page turner.

This book is not for the faint of heart with regards to the triggers (big ones for kidnapping, violence / murder and one animal death halfway through the book; references to rape / sexual assault and child abuse), but it's definitely worth a read, especially if you find a good creepy Christmas music playlist for ambience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, and Sexual violence

elizabethjoyy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Incredible read. It’s 2AM and I feel nauseous. Once you get into it, it’s hard to get out. The end could have been expanded a little bit, but also it’s 2AM and I am unable to comprehend much. Incredible read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Blood