Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman

8 reviews

crowyhead's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Grief, Body horror, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Blood, Excrement, Car accident, Cannibalism, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Child death

Minor: Genocide, Classism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Racism

jessicake1's review against another edition

challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Grief, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, Addiction, Confinement, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Vomit, Drug use, Violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Classism, Death of parent, Sexual content, Bullying, Child death, and Excrement

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Though I enjoyed the process of reading this book, I'm not sure what to make of it coming out the other side. There are so many different themes throughout that I'm just not sure where to land on the point of the book being, and I'm not sure if it knows itself either. Didn't make it a bad experience for me by any means, but I just didnt get that "aha!" moment of realizing how everything connects and the meaning of it. Was this a metaphor for addiction in general? An autonomous fungus taking over? Actual ghosts at the heart of everything? Not sure. But I enjoyed the process. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Cannibalism, Death, Vomit, Body horror, Drug abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Gore, Death of parent, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Emotional abuse and Sexual content

jaylee_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Drug abuse, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Drug use, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion

jourdanicus's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

3.0

Took me forever to get through the last 9-10% of this book, I guess by that point I just didn't care anymore. I do think it was a good story and had a lot of strengths. For me, the drug addiction analogy/"lesson" was too literal, though. The pauses with italicized text that I took to be Erin's intrusive thoughts felt kinda cheesy, and took me out of reading rather than immersing me more in Erin's point of view.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is into "sporror" (mushroom horror), as I can see it is a must-read in that canon. I think this one was just not for me, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Sexual content

voilajean's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, Drug use, Addiction, and Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Minor: Slavery and Racism

nugsforbugs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Violence, Vomit, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Murder

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A visceral story about addiction, toxic relationships, grief, loss, and letting go of what haunts you. Would definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Infidelity, Child death, Abortion, and Sexual content