A review by meagm
Playground by Aron Beauregard

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

You’re gonna wanna look up the TW’s for this one. Fun for depraved splatter punk seekers, disturbing for everyone else. The most grotesque parts for me weren’t even about the playground itself. 🤢 Rethinking my choices after this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Gore, Abandonment, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Torture, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Death, Rape, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Incest, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence