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Penance by Eliza Clark

31 reviews

aliyachaudhry's review

dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Racism, Torture, Cursing, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Murder, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Sexual assault, Biphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Vomit, Ableism, Suicide, Pedophilia, and Incest

Minor: Self harm and Eating disorder

chronicacademia's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

An incredible, uncomfortable, horrifying dissection of the true crime genre and its “fandoms.” A must read for anyone who consumes true crime. 

Adding a content warning for necrophilia as well as the content warnings listed below. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Incest, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Medical content

taliakdean's review

dark mysterious medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Vomit, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Incest, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Dysphoria, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, and Torture

Minor: Dementia, Body shaming, Racism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Grief, Abortion, Miscarriage, Outing, and Pregnancy

aileron's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Kidnapping, Bullying, Death, Child death, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Classism, Confinement, Racism, Self harm, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

lovelylilelle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Toxic friendship, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Suicide, Body horror, Classism, Death, Drug use, Alcohol, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction

gia0203's review

challenging dark reflective 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? Yes

5.0

So engaging, so well-structured. At times I felt intimately connected to these characters. This has a lot to say about true crime as a genre - both as an exploitative, profit-led form of entertainment, but also as a source of comfort for young people. I found the narrator to be genuinely unsettling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Bullying, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Self harm, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Violence, Body shaming, and Blood

Minor: Homophobia, Addiction, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, and Vomit

shelfofunread's review

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Child death, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Cursing, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent, Biphobia, Self harm, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Classism

geraldinerowe's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

I haven't read Boy Parts so this was my first taste of Eliza Clark's writing and I found it outstanding. The whole thing messes with your head as the vast majority of Penance is a fictional book written by a fictional author, but you're also aware from the beginning that this fictional book in this fictional world might not be entirely true. In all this, Eliza Clark manages to make adolescents' speech and writing styles not just understandable but compelling. I think the unreliable narrator is made a little too much of and is there to add an extra dimension to the book's criticism of True Crime, but it would have been less of a book without it. I'm off out to buy Boy Parts now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Death, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Toxic friendship, and Gun violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Death of parent, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Racism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

hangry's review

dark reflective tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Fatphobia, and Racism

milesjmoran's review

dark funny mysterious sad 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: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Sexual assault, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence