Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

37 reviews

jbfletcher's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

It was a wonderful, wonderful ride. It's a story of friendship and love at any cost, despide all the odds. I really love Grady Hendrix stories, they usually stay with me for a long time. I also think that for my generation (i was born in the 80s), this is a more relatable representation of femal friendship than, for example, My brilliant friend. I'd just not inserted ableist and racial slurs (this just one), that for me were unnecessary, but a part from this i really loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Rape, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Eating disorder, Classism, Bullying, Body shaming, Body horror, Animal death, and Ableism

beepbopbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Drug use, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Homophobia and Racism

bingo_banjo's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Racism, Medical content, Physical abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, and Drug use

thiscryptidreads's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.0

 This book is dripping with 80's nostalgia. Grady Hendrix is great at setting a scene and immersing you into the book. I listened to it on audiobook and all it was missing was background music fit to be played by John Cusack's boombox. I don't consider this book scary but the 1st 50% is setting the scene for the demon in this tale and really, it's simply pure teenage trauma and was hard to listen to at parts. If you have past trauma with bullying eating disorders, religious trauma or have issues with confrontations this book might be rough and once things get moving it really hurls towards the ending in a quick paced pile of events that will leave you sitting there going what the heck?

If you watched the movie 1st and are now reading the book they are not the same, the ending is completely different
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Elaborating to the trigger warnings above, the animal abuse includes the family dog, on page description of his death and the grief caused by it after. A Prominent side characters inclusion in the demons' plans included her being tricked that their pastor was in love with her and resulted in her attempted public suicide with partial nudity.  During the exorcism both girls are described as being touched inappropriately by invisible "demon" hands and can be triggering for those who have suffered from past Sexual Abuse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic friendship, Religious bigotry, Bullying, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide attempt, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Tw: Alcohol, Animal death, Assault, Attempted murder, Attempted suicide, Blood, Cheating, Child abuse (physical, on page), Cults (mentions of satanic cults), Demons, Drug abuse, Eating disorders, Emesis (graphic), Gore, Hallucinations, Homophobia, Misogyny, Poisoning, Potential rape (accusations of and suggestion) Racist language, Self-harm, Sexism.

sydneynorman's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

3.0

TRIGGER WARNINGS: SEXUAL ASSUALT AND MURDER OF PET DOG

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Racism, Alcoholism, and Animal death

chelseylb1988's review

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

geektastically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

This was a really interesting and well written book. You feel the inspiration but once you get to the later half of the book some of the content really got to me because of how well the relationships and characters were written. Be careful reading this for sure. I'm only giving it a lower score because the back half really shook me and I had a hard time with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Torture, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Grief, Sexism, Bullying, Car accident, Chronic illness, Vomit, Body horror, Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

cimmarion's review

dark 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? N/A

3.75

It was. interesting. there were some parts i really did enjoy and others im like. was this necessary??!?!? i have conflicting feelings lmao. the ending was good though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Eating disorder, Racism, and Rape

excritos's review against another edition

dark sad 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Violence

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

bookishgoob's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Death of parent