Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

14 reviews

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

If Fight Club and Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke had a baby, it would be this book.

I think the synopsis of this book is both misleading and too direct. Here's a better summary of the basic plot:

This book is about a troubled young woman who develops and deep fascination with vultures that turns into an obsession. This story follows her as she becomes more and more unhinged.

This book is very different and I loved it way more than I expected to. The reason I enjoyed it so much is that the writing itself is very good. The subject matter is macabre and even quite gross at times but it's written in a way that's so poetic (in a similar way to how the writing in fight club is interesting).

Would I recommend this book? Not to everyone. It's definitely a weird book and I know many people would find it offputting. But if you're looking for something unique, poetic, and enjoy a semi-unreliable narrarator that becomes more unhinged as the story goes on, this is a good one for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Car accident, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity

Our MC breaks into the neighbours barn and kills and eats a baby piglet raw. Then throws it up later. This scene is both sad because it's a poor animal, but also it's gross.

There's one fairly explicit sex scene between two women.

Our MC shoots her neighbour, killing him, then cuts him up to feed him to the vultures.

The MC eats raw and rotten meat.

booksnbones13's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

5.0

stunning novella. great horror 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, and Vomit

0ogazanami's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

3.75

The secrets I locked down in the cellar of my gut have crawled away to expose their horrors into the light.

The book does a fantastic job of describing the horrifying nature of intrusive thoughts, and how sometimes, when they're left unsupervised within a mind that was not made to harbor them nor deal with them correctly, it can lead to a very disturbing and grotesque reality. The way many thoughts and feelings are described are in such a way that I felt so genuinely understood; the way it touches on such a shunned upon mindset and experience of the disturbing and extreme was comforting, in a gross fucked up kind of way.

However, the book itself is not at all what I wanted from it. I started it with hopes and dreams of reading something so utterly disgusting and revolting, based simply on the experience of others in the reveiws, and yet I came out of it... unsatisfied. If you get grossed out easily, or at the very least easier than I do, and want a quick read of something unsettling, then I'm sure this book is perfect for you. But for someone who maybe fails to get that feeling of disgust from any form of  fictional media that you may get in a real-life situation, this book may have very little effect on you like it has with me.

Over all, I believe it's a very good read and was most definitely worth the time and money I spent on it.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror and Addiction

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Child death, Misogyny, Torture, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Car accident

brainbread's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.75

it was a fun read ngl, but it was really short. sometimes it felt like things were missing and the pacing would feel a bit rushed, but it is less than 100 pages and that can all be boiled down to the unreliable narrator.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Animal death, and Mental illness

possible tws: if you like animals, then I'd say maybe be cautious of this book. similarly, there is violence against a poc character initiated by the white, main character so if that may be troubling to you, maybe avoid this book

hen800's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

A really effective, depraved horror. Poetically written - but I didn’t find the main character’s obsession with vultures that believable, as we’re thrust into extreme thoughts from the start. Would’ve been more believable if the descent into obsession was slower, so it felt less like a gross-out horror that just intended to shock.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Vomit, Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

hayleyw's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Body horror, Torture, Grief, Mental illness, Vomit, Murder, Car accident, Sexual content, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Violence, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual harassment

ennzito24's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish. Some parts made me very uncomfortable and others had be completely encapsulated. I just couldn't put the book down! Expect lots of gross scenes and very dark undertones as you dwelve into the mind of a woman obsessed with vultures.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Violence, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Cannibalism, Torture, and Animal death

thrillsnchills's review

dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cannibalism, Gore, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent

sammysamsam's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Physical abuse, Blood, Cursing, Murder, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Animal death, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Torture

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Abandonment, and Death of parent

cat_d's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Vomit