A review by yodudeitskelsey
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

challenging dark slow-paced

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

0.5

This book was a miserable experience. It feels like the amalgamation of story ideas created by a 16-year old trying to scare their peers by writing the most foul things to come to mind was smashed together with a loose thread of a "plot" and called a novel. These are stories that teenage boys sit around a campfire coming up with in an attempt to get the most negative reaction from their friends. If this book was kept to that - a collection of short stories - it would garner more respect from me. Instead it attempts to tie all of these atrocities together with the false confidence you would expect from the same previously mentioned teenage boys. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Racism, Excrement, Religious bigotry, War, Classism