Reviews tagging 'Child death'

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

38 reviews

biocatrina's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

auteaandtales's review

adventurous dark funny sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Murder

lucimolri's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

3,5. La verdad me ha sorprendido bastante! Después de la decepción de The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires no me esperaba que este me fuera a gustar. La razón por la que no le doy 4 estrellas es porque me da mucha rabia cómo están escritos los personajes antagonistas, pero por lo demás ha estado muy bien (el capítulo 22??? 

la forma en la que describe todo lo de los gusanos buf buuuff

  Que maravillaaa, casi poto en el coche). Mis dieces a la narradora, lo hace genial!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Car accident

honeywine's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Loved this book, but it’s definitely not for the faint of heart.

The story trucked along and was somewhere between medium and fast paced. There weren’t many lulls throughout the book which made it an easy read to get lost in. 

Great demonic possession story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

sylvestra's review

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual assault and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, and Alcohol

_chelseachelsea's review

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

After being pretty disappointed by The Final Girls Support Group, I’m happy to say this Hendrix novel was a winner. My Best Friend’s Exorcism is delightfully twisted, darkly funny, and surprisingly moving. It’s a nice blend of retro horror and coming-of-age flick that highlights Hendrix’s surprising talent for getting inside the heads of teenage girls.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

josienb's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The very intro and ending (the last chapter) weren’t done well. They don’t really tie anything together. They’re just sort of there. I felt like they weren’t even needed or should have been given more time and love in the writing room. Otherwise I loved this book. 98% of this book was really fun and enjoyable. Quirky and plays on some fun 80’s themes while still delivering the classic horror and exorcist vibes.

I really disliked that Grady wrote all the way to Abby’s death at 80. It just felt cheap and a really odd way to end a book like this.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Child death

blklagoon's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Self harm

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Eating disorder, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma

l4r4777's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I cried at the end of this book. I was mortified and gross out and thoroughly entertained, and I cried. This book has really intense and gross scenes, and everything else is dark and mysterious and packed with slasher-movie levels of fun. I adored it. Perfect for the spooky season, such a fun, gross book:) Also adore the cover I could stare at it all day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

webb_beb's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

So here’s the thing: this book did feel like a test run for his later The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. It had many of the same sort of themes and was in the same setting. However, I still really really liked it. I thought that it was  less scary that Southern Book Club… or The Final Girl Support Group but I honestly felt like the characters were fun and fresh. I would still definitely recommend, overall a great spooky read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Death of parent