Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

54 reviews

stine_0's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcoholism, Gore, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, Death, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Bullying, Confinement, Alcoholism, Gore, Blood, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia

Minor: Biphobia, Vomit, Bullying, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Racism, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Sexism, and Alcohol

withlivjones's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

This was a gripping read. I don’t read a lot of horror or gore but I was thoroughly glued to the page. The characters are all pretty morally grey and unlikeable, and I enjoyed the exploration of the reality TV genre. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Body horror, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

enyltiak's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Just such a fun read. I loved Renee as a character,

she made such a great final girl for this story,

and the romance between Maggie and Kathy that's explored through letters in the last third of the book genuinely almost brought me to tears. A win for the lesbians.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Animal death, Gore, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, and Alcoholism

tacochelle's review

dark funny mysterious 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

3.0

Such a weird book. Part satire of modern media, part slasher. I think the slasher part was more effective than the satire. Leaves many questions unanswered, and I wish we saw more of Patricia (the sasquatch).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Murder, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny and Homophobia

Minor: Animal death and Abortion

alleahwebb's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

grunbean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

I devoured this. This book is my flavour of weird, and I could not put it down. Woman’s wrongs, reality TV and commentary on society, lesbians, the Pacific Northwest, and a cryptid? Sign me up.

From the reviews I read I was expecting this to be pulpy. I can see that, but is this is pulp then it’s the best pulp I’ve ever read. I want more of this, which is my only complaint. 

I don’t feel like I can describe my experience without spoilers. It might not be the weirdest out there, but it will take you for a wild ride. And, for me, the gore is VISCERAL.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, and Homophobia

inkworm's review

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Bullying, Alcoholism, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Abortion

cmboyke's review

dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

This was the perfect thrill ride to pull me out of my reading slump. Once I started, it was difficult not to read the rest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Classism, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Bullying, Colonisation, Sexism, Violence, Gore, Homophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Death, Car accident, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Self harm, Ableism, Drug use, Kidnapping, Abortion, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racism, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

abigailc0x's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Weird book? good but also what 
I liked the pacing of the second half of the book but the first half did go very slow for me 
So confused would have kind of liked more of an explanation but whatever
For a book that says it’s a queer horror it isn’t very gay more a book that just had a gay couple in 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Death, and Car accident

Moderate: Body horror, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

eliya's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-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

2.75

I had a whole review written out yesterday and I didn’t save it and now it’s gone 😪
It took me about a month to read this pretty short book lol. 13 hours of reading time.

Loved the “weird” nature of the book, combining two loved genres, the snide remarks the characters make about each other. There are some good quotes from this book that I’ll be listing below. I don’t think you’re supposed to like any character and I definitely didn’t lol. Loved the physical descriptions the author used to describe feelings. 

Did not love the writing style. The author focused a lot on scene dressing and filled most of the book with painful, needless details and empty attempts to develop internal dialogue between the different characters.

I think Casey was spot-on- Amanda and Vanessa were the same character, one just had two moms and talked mostly about how that shaped her vs the other one who wanted to fuck Jeremy so much. Lilah Mae was a caricature of the toxic Christian trope & Renee… I’m conflicted about Renee. She was a curmudgeon the whole book, understandably so, but I don't find valor in just being a hater. 

In the author’s note, the author talks about how it took courage to write this “weird” book, but it truly was not weird enough.

I had a lot of hopes for this book, but all in all, it was: boring, boring, cringy and unbelievable, funny, boring, until 80% through, then it was really exciting!! Where was that the whole rest of the book?

Favorite quotes out of context -

“For Alexa, the knife in my heart”
“But that was the point, wasn’t it? To be reminded.”
“Some pretzel bags are prettier than others…”
"But she's trying to stop searching for herself in the eyes of others"
"Standing over her like a gangly teenager about to ask his mom for lunch money"
"He tasted minty and yet somehow still disgusting, like Altoids that had been scraped off of the floor of the car."
"She imagines what it would be like to have a brain unburdened by intelligence--and then Vanessa's..."
"Casey didn't finish; she wasn't expecting to"
"It seems like the sort of place where you could actually just live life, instead of researching the best way to live your life on the internet."

 

"Leafless trees poking out through the cracks between them, like arms worn down to their sinews reaching up to be fed."
"Nothing but silence and sky. It feels like the end of the world."

" 'Maybe you would have rather gone home with Amanda?! ... You kissed her way better than you ever kissed me!' 'That's because you taste like unwashed asshole, Jeremy' "
"...barely notice it at first, is a fresh human head, detached from a body that is nowhere to be found. Her hair tied in a ponytail, her expression frozen in shock, a layer of blood caking on pale skin. 'Hi, Amanda,' Renee says, looking down at the head. Amanda doesn't speak back, because she's a disembodied head. Alas, poor Amanda."

 

New words:
Indefatigable - Persisting tirelessly.
Eponymous -  

1. (of a person) giving their name to something.
2. "the eponymous hero of the novel"
   • (of a thing) named after a particular person.
   • "Roseanne's eponymous hit TV series"

Adroit -   clever or skillful in using the hands or mind. "he was adroit at tax avoidance" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Death, Violence, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Terminal illness, Homophobia, Cancer, and Abortion

Minor: Racism, Fatphobia, and Grief