Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

17 reviews

ivymaew's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, and Dementia

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Torture, Murder, Violence, and Pedophilia

beanodie75's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

aflogive's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Child death, Animal death, Car accident, Death, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Dementia, Murder, Violence, and Medical trauma

Minor: Kidnapping

e_gracereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The blurb of this book states that “… by the end of it all, you will wish that you could forget what he never knew.” The blurb is fucking right. This was easily the most dread-inducing, genuinely terrifying horror that I’ve ever read. It didn’t need gore. It didn’t need shock value. It just needed these little breadcrumbs that slowly unravel… absolutely horrifying. Go into it cold, if you can, because it makes it that much worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Grief, Stalking, and Death

Minor: Violence

kermit_the_wrong's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

anne311's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

dannybrown59's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

3.5

This book was really creepy and while I had trouble getting into it I ended up enjoying it. I loved  how we discovered the truth along with the narrator I thought it could have been written a little better. Overall it left me unsettled and I definitely got the creepypasta vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Stalking, and Violence