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A review by madarauchiha
The Boy with the Spider Face by A.J. Franks
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
3.0
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The themes are really heavy handed here. I think the worse part of that is how it just... fizzled out. I don't want a afternoon special preached at me, an adult, but it's pretty strangling and comes across as flat.
The ending was... goofy. I guess you could say the cycle of abuse is continuing? Just because theMC learned all the 'wrong' lessons from his childhood and is imparting that to the next generation. Idk, I hope that's not too spoilery. It's a very standard generic white person horror story. That's about it.
It was pretty gore horror rather than supernatural horror. I don't think that's for me, hence the flip flop wishy wash rating of 3 stars. It's not a bad book per se, just pretty superficial.
major alcoholism, animal death, body horror, bullying, child abuse, confinement, death, gore, homophobia, insects, murder, parental death, peer abuse, racism, vomit, xenophobia
The themes are really heavy handed here. I think the worse part of that is how it just... fizzled out. I don't want a afternoon special preached at me, an adult, but it's pretty strangling and comes across as flat.
The ending was... goofy. I guess you could say the cycle of abuse is continuing? Just because the
It was pretty gore horror rather than supernatural horror. I don't think that's for me, hence the flip flop wishy wash rating of 3 stars. It's not a bad book per se, just pretty superficial.
major alcoholism, animal death, body horror, bullying, child abuse, confinement, death, gore, homophobia, insects, murder, parental death, peer abuse, racism, vomit, xenophobia
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Murder, Alcoholism, Xenophobia, Body horror, Racism, Vomit, Drug abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, and Homophobia