Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Penpal by Dathan Auerbach

15 reviews

madfromonline's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Car accident, Gore, Stalking, Death, Grief, Violence, Dementia, Kidnapping, and Pedophilia

itsjustgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Utterly heart broken. Tense, and emotional. Auerbach gives you the pieces of the puzzle to put together yourself, each one more horrifying than the last. The final picture is harrowing. What a read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Stalking, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Trafficking and Dementia

Minor: Vomit

star_charter152's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Body horror, Grief, Pedophilia, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Animal death, Dementia, and Gore

barronhaily's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Body horror

hailey_horror's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Murder, Bullying, Death, and Stalking

nagisasigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

this book broke my heart, but it was also gripping and well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Stalking, Car accident, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Kidnapping, Dementia, Grief, Medical content, and Pedophilia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

justcallmeem's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

The pacing of this book is super strange and at points the time jumps in the story made it a little confusing for me to fully piece together. There were some good creepy and WTF moments and it seems that the author exceeds in writing about gore and uncomfortable topics which makes sense coming from ‘nosleep’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Child death

Moderate: Body horror

daniela_09's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

So creepy as each chapter progresses!

A bit confusing with the progression of events(his childhood could've been told in chronological order) and it would've delivered the same type of creepiness and suspense to the readers.

I also wanted the author to give more depth or information about the penpal/stalker so it lacked that closure for me in the end.

Overall, I still liked it and it fit the vibe of my spooky reading list 🎃👻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Death

katiieecat's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Dementia, Stalking, Bullying, Car accident, and Pedophilia

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.75

Very slow burn of a book but thoroughly creepy. Has a sense of dread almost from the beginning that builds slowly until the very end. Not very action packed but it's the atmosphere that makes it a pretty creepy read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Stalking, Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Car accident, Bullying, and Grief

Minor: Dementia