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Woom: An Extreme Psychological Horror Novel by Duncan Ralston

33 reviews

starkelsee's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Violence

alomie's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.0

I don't think I can adequately describe how gross this book was, it's most definitely not safe for human consumption.

No amount of brain bleach will remove the horrors of this book from my mind, truly disgusting and I honestly have no idea what is wrong with Mr Ralston. 

A play on room/womb womb is a single room horror story, a man brings a overweight sex worker to a pay by the hour motel room and he starts telling her more and more depraved and disgusting stories, she in turn tells him some horrible stories of her life and clients, culminating in one of the weirdest endings I have ever read. 

This book made me question what the heck I just read.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gore, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pregnancy

perplexed's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

So I did mostly enjoy Woom, I think. There were 100% a couple of absolutely toe curling moments, but, I think I may have been reading too much splatter punk recently because nothing came as *super* shocking. 

There was a slight twist (more of a reveal) that worked really well, but I did find a fair few of the stories to be a little predictable. 

Also shout out to Shyla, the plus sized prostitute who is apparently colour blind cause girl those flags you were missing? They were red as heck yo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Toxic relationship, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Gore, Drug abuse, Drug use, Body horror, and Addiction

Please don't read this unless you've got a strong stomach omg