Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark

99 reviews

beccawatson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Animal death, Violence, and Murder

nere's review

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.75

monday the 19th of february 2024

i’m going to start off by saying. if you get it you get it if you don’t you don’t if you know you know. either you get the vibe or you don’t get the vibe

i started reading right before bed and mentally i was like. let me just read the first page. and then i looked up and i was a quarter of my way through the book.

the writing style is incredibly engrossing. its very quip and readable but not without personality. it’s so easy to read. there’s almost something incredibly mundane about all of it. but you still want to keep reading to know what happens next. its so addictive thats all i can say. eliza clark is some sort of wizard.

the book follows irina, a professional photographer who is known for taking risque photos of men. there’s not really a need to know much else besides the fact you are reading a horror novel. be wary of trigger warnings if applicable

i’m not entirely settled on a rating I think 
I’ll need to sit on it a bit more but its definitely one I haven’t been able to stop thinking about which is always a sign of a winner.

“Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren’t they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley’s car, on the floor of a friend’s house, half-conscious with my underwear around my ankles? Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was? And that gets sewn into them young, doesn’t it? Violence.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Gore, Animal death, Blood, Rape, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Body shaming

Moderate: Torture and Classism

Minor: Biphobia and Cancer

unreality, dissociation, auditory/visual hallucinations

nenya's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

This book is unlike anything I‘ve ever read. It infiltrates your mind and completely twists your imagination. The main character is sickenly repulsive but so fascinating that you can’t stop reading about all the fucked up things she‘s doing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Gore, Self harm, Rape, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Cursing, Vomit, Violence, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Body horror, and Alcoholism

charlieeew's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual violence, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Body shaming

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, Self harm, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Death

jesselopod's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-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

4.0

Superb audiobook reading. I thought it was awful but then I realised that it was just the main character that was awful. This book is what I wanted my year of rest and relaxation to be. It read like Effie from Skins got into photography and got infinitely more mean. At first I thought this book was gratuitously excessively unhinged, but as I kept reading I found the concepts the book was exploring really compelling.

Although I was frustrated that it took as long as it did to drop the hook into the story surrounding “my boy”, I really loved the way the author handled the slide into unreliability as Irena’s reality dissolved around her, and I really enjoyed the emotional roller coaster the author put you through as a reader, how she played around with empathy the reader feels for her alongside her unforgivable cruelty. 

The ending was very abrupt. I like that there is no resolution to knowing what is and isn’t real, but I also felt the story didn’t really reach a conclusion either. With a tweaked ending I think I would have rated it much higher.

I viscerally hated reading much of this, it felt like watching a car crash, but I also didn’t want to stop listening to it. I don’t like horror as a genre, but I’m glad I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Murder, Rape, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

chrishham's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

bro...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Violence, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Murder, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Self harm, Body shaming, and Transphobia

samantha914's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense

• 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

2.0

This book was very hard to get through, I can’t lie. The writing style was hard for me to follow and I honestly couldn’t wait to be done with it. The ending did leave my jaw on the floor though, I can say that. It’s like it got good in the last 5 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Addiction, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Eating disorder, Rape, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

luxxltyd's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Rape, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Addiction, Eating disorder, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Blood, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, and Pedophilia

magicalmegija's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Murder, Self harm, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Gore, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Violence, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Rape, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Abortion, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Death, and Drug use

larakennedy's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Murder, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Addiction, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship