Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

31 reviews

samantha914's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Car accident

Minor: Fatphobia and Bullying

itsjustgrumpy's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Utterly heart broken. Tense, and emotional. Auerbach gives you the pieces of the puzzle to put together yourself, each one more horrifying than the last. The final picture is harrowing. What a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Stalking, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Trafficking and Dementia

Minor: Vomit

amandalove2bme's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Murder, Torture, Violence, Death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

marslotus's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Dathan Auerbach has such a masterful handle on suspense and mystery, I was on the edge of my seat for the entirety of this read. I remember first listening to this years ago, back when it was a creepypasta YouTubers made into online audioreads and I'm so happy to return to it as an adult knowing it's just as creepy and engaging as I found it was when I was a kid. Even in moments where you can guess ahead of the narration what the horrifying reveal of each chapter will be, it still feels so earned and equally as terrifying. My only complaint is that it's not longer!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, Grief, Stalking, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Blood, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Drug use, Pedophilia, Bullying, Mental illness, and Blood

rat_leoo's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Stalking, Child abuse, Violence, Blood, Death, and Emotional abuse

hailey_horror's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Murder, Bullying, Death, and Stalking

fresh_guy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

It's formatting isn't perfect because its formatted for reddit, but it's only noticable in the narration itself. many of the stories repeat facts that were mentioned in other stories.

I'm likely bias because I grew up with TheNoSleep Podcast and this is just the "stalker episode book" from the first season, but I genuinely think this is good micro-horror (even if it is twelve years old).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Gore

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Rape and Blood

The gore is only on one or two pages but Auerbach goes into EXCRUCIATING detail on those one or two pages. The rape isn't expressly mentioned, but

it is slightly implied at the end

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nagisasigh's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

this book broke my heart, but it was also gripping and well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Stalking, Car accident, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Kidnapping, Dementia, Grief, Medical content, and Pedophilia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

ksuazo94's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Animal death, Child death, Murder, Pedophilia, Medical content, Violence, Blood, Death, Confinement, Grief, and Kidnapping

jackierobinson's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship