Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

76 reviews

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

2.5

dark funny 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

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like if amelia bedelia snapped

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Miscarriage

lesbianhobbit's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny 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

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i think the author might’ve just really wanted to write about gory murder and decided the victorian setting was aesthetically pleasing enough to get away with it without seeming like an insane person

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming

obsetress's review against another edition

3.5

dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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fun!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic

blvkgirlreads's review against another edition

4.5

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Mental illness, Murder

ambur_justeen's review against another edition

5.0

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Quick, and horrifying read, with an explosive ending. I have not read anything like it before, and I could hardly put it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Miscarriage

amessina3399's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny 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

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Overall, a really good time! This book does a great job of transporting you into the true, nasty Victorian era, language and chapter introductions and all. It's a quick and easy read, and gives you just enough gore and nastiness of the kills without going so in-depth that it's hard to stomach. This is a great horror/slasher novel without being splatterpunk, and the descriptions are rich with life (and death). That being said, some minor plot-holes here and there, and while the language really lent itself to the world of the story, I was grateful I was reading the ebook so I could quickly get definitions of words so I could get a proper understanding of what exactly the narrator was talking about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Classism

poodily's review against another edition

3.0

dark funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Fatphobia

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Incest

thejennybee's review against another edition

4.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

v0idborne's review against another edition

2.0

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Shocking, not particularly clever. Unreliable narrator doesn't quite explain the plot holes. I hope the movie takes a cue from The Substance and plays up the grossness, it's the most memorable part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Misogyny, Self harm, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Cannibalism

Every kind of violence and gore possible - eye trauma, dental trauma, animal abuse/death, violence against children and infants, poisoning, stabbing, hanging, burning, burying alive...

saintswitchblade's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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My inner edgelord loved this book. Better than American Psycho by a longshot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Abortion