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A review by lav
Brain Damage by Kago
dark
mysterious
1.5
thanks to netgalley for the arc!
none of this felt remotely believable or even scary really, but it had a few moments
first two stories were kinda just eye-roll corny, maybe 2 or 3 stars. i did laugh at the final shot of story 1
second story was off because at every turn the character actions didn't feel like something a real person would do. this could have worked maybe if there was a clear established code of behavior differing from that of our world but it came off more as a series of "wouldn't this be crazyyy" character choices
a lot of gratuitous nudity of school girls (read: under age), the panty shot in story 3 really made me grimace
just a lot of weird horniness and bad sexual behavior that seems pretty implicitly supported by the narrative? a boy pins his sister down and starts pulling her shirt off, which obviously looks like (and is) sexual assault, but then, plot twist: the boy is just forcefully checking her for The Curse, stop being a perv!! note that his only established character traits are Horny and blaming his sister's sexual assault at the hands of their grandfather on the way she dresses
ok actually scrap this whole review im just going to live react because i hit the halfway point and this whole thing is just incest shock factor 😠sorry man i'm not with it, 1 star
quote: "You may have forgotten you* grandchild but you won't forget this ass!"
*typo straight from the text
after this we are treated to several pages of the grandfather groping her nude breasts and another panty shot (now with 100% more incest!) and now he's fingering her, oh wow. what else can i even say
ok fourth story. art of the mangled corpses is cool. visual of the taste of blood making a car burst into flames is also cool, can't say i've ever seen vampire cars before. truly the lengths society will go to to avoid investing in public transport! 3 stars. wait never mind the last page has tits for no reason, 2 stars (i get it's probably trying to show her dehumanization but it just looks like a pattern in context w the other stories)
overall: did not think after reading story 1 that it was going to be my favorite lol. main thing that's sticking w me is the gratuitous and tasteless sexual content and not in a cool way 👎
avg rating 2 stars? could be 1 star for me tbh, the treatment of sexual assault left a pretty bad taste in my mouth
none of this felt remotely believable or even scary really, but it had a few moments
first two stories were kinda just eye-roll corny, maybe 2 or 3 stars. i did laugh at the final shot of story 1
second story was off because at every turn the character actions didn't feel like something a real person would do. this could have worked maybe if there was a clear established code of behavior differing from that of our world but it came off more as a series of "wouldn't this be crazyyy" character choices
a lot of gratuitous nudity of school girls (read: under age), the panty shot in story 3 really made me grimace
just a lot of weird horniness and bad sexual behavior that seems pretty implicitly supported by the narrative? a boy pins his sister down and starts pulling her shirt off, which obviously looks like (and is) sexual assault, but then, plot twist: the boy is just forcefully checking her for The Curse, stop being a perv!! note that his only established character traits are Horny and blaming his sister's sexual assault at the hands of their grandfather on the way she dresses
ok actually scrap this whole review im just going to live react because i hit the halfway point and this whole thing is just incest shock factor 😠sorry man i'm not with it, 1 star
quote: "You may have forgotten you* grandchild but you won't forget this ass!"
*typo straight from the text
after this we are treated to several pages of the grandfather groping her nude breasts and another panty shot (now with 100% more incest!) and now he's fingering her, oh wow. what else can i even say
ok fourth story. art of the mangled corpses is cool. visual of the taste of blood making a car burst into flames is also cool, can't say i've ever seen vampire cars before. truly the lengths society will go to to avoid investing in public transport! 3 stars. wait never mind the last page has tits for no reason, 2 stars (i get it's probably trying to show her dehumanization but it just looks like a pattern in context w the other stories)
overall: did not think after reading story 1 that it was going to be my favorite lol. main thing that's sticking w me is the gratuitous and tasteless sexual content and not in a cool way 👎
avg rating 2 stars? could be 1 star for me tbh, the treatment of sexual assault left a pretty bad taste in my mouth
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Medical content
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Stalking