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bookdeviant86's review
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Body shaming, Child death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Drug use, Murder, Torture, Gore, Mental illness, Sexism, Stalking, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, Bullying, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Violence
No words. Good book. Definitely extreme horrorcrypticbookslut's review
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
4.0
i felt so awful reading this, Kim really needed a psychiatrist and some anti psychotics. The horror was very affective, i felt dirty.
gracethezombie's review
dark
funny
tense
fast-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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Murder
chops525's review
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
crystal_curls_reads's review
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
An extreme horror book with all of the gore and a well developed, complex female main character. I feel like I really understood Kim, which is a complex feeling as a reader. I really enjoyed the messed up ride this book took me on.
fullmooneaters's review
4.0
Ok so, I thought about this book for around a week before writing a review, cuz I felt a lot of mixed feelings. If you know me (or read my reviews), you’ll know I really like books that make me experience emotion so deeply that I can physically feel like. Normally, I quite enjoy that feeling. Call me what you want, it’s the truth. I love feeling giddy with romance books, and I love feeling disgusting and crushed with horror books. I just really like things centered around emotion. That’s also why I watch a lot of comedy.
Now I mention this not to blab about myself, but because I wanted to empathize that this is what I look for. This is what I enjoy. This was the first book to ever make me regret enjoying that feeling. I felt a soul sucking, gut punching sorrow while I was reading this. It was just miserable. Now, I like morally grey characters a lot. Sure, fuck up your teacher all you want, but her messing with Catlin really got under my skin, and not in the good way. I felt that same dread I did when reading The Groomer. That “I know this is going to end terribly, and I’m gonna feel like my heart has been ripped out” feeling. I liked The Groomer a fair bit, because it felt real. This didn’t have the same realism, but you can’t really compare the two.
I just, I don’t know. I, for the first time, felt genuinely miserable when reading something. Even worse than when I read Goodnight Punpun. Yeah, I felt WORSE than that. And yet, seeing all my past reviews, you’d think I’d love this.
I didn’t.
I felt so terrible reading it. So terrible. Yet, I couldn’t put it down. I itched to know what happened, even though I knew it would end terribly. I wanted to know how Kim got rid of her issue, and how far she would go, how much she would break. It was so gripping, and I hated it.
But hate is the best sort of compliment you can get, in my eyes.
Truly, beside feeling downright awful while reading it, the other other complaint that I have is that I can’t realistically see a 16 year old getting away with murder so much. It pulled me from the immersion knowing that Kim carried a Swiss Army knife around with her and so that meant someone must’ve noticed, and if the police were too stupid to figure that out, then they should be fired. I mean, I know law enforcement isn’t always competent, but give me break.
The only other thing i can say is that I think I kept reading so that I could see Kim get her comeuppance. I was disappointed.
The book was good, damn good. Well written and deserving of all praise it gets. But it’s just misery on top of misery on top of misery. But that is what makes it so good. I liked seeing Kim be sickly happy or fake and then have a wicked thought in her head, I liked that she could maintain that facade, I like that she slowly broke down as her desperation grew. Yeah, it was good.
Teenagers are cruel, crueler than you think. I’ll never read this book again.
Now I mention this not to blab about myself, but because I wanted to empathize that this is what I look for. This is what I enjoy. This was the first book to ever make me regret enjoying that feeling. I felt a soul sucking, gut punching sorrow while I was reading this. It was just miserable. Now, I like morally grey characters a lot. Sure, fuck up your teacher all you want, but her messing with Catlin really got under my skin, and not in the good way. I felt that same dread I did when reading The Groomer. That “I know this is going to end terribly, and I’m gonna feel like my heart has been ripped out” feeling. I liked The Groomer a fair bit, because it felt real. This didn’t have the same realism, but you can’t really compare the two.
I just, I don’t know. I, for the first time, felt genuinely miserable when reading something. Even worse than when I read Goodnight Punpun. Yeah, I felt WORSE than that. And yet, seeing all my past reviews, you’d think I’d love this.
I didn’t.
I felt so terrible reading it. So terrible. Yet, I couldn’t put it down. I itched to know what happened, even though I knew it would end terribly. I wanted to know how Kim got rid of her issue, and how far she would go, how much she would break. It was so gripping, and I hated it.
But hate is the best sort of compliment you can get, in my eyes.
Truly, beside feeling downright awful while reading it, the other other complaint that I have is that I can’t realistically see a 16 year old getting away with murder so much. It pulled me from the immersion knowing that Kim carried a Swiss Army knife around with her and so that meant someone must’ve noticed, and if the police were too stupid to figure that out, then they should be fired. I mean, I know law enforcement isn’t always competent, but give me break.
The only other thing i can say is that I think I kept reading so that I could see Kim get her comeuppance. I was disappointed.
The book was good, damn good. Well written and deserving of all praise it gets. But it’s just misery on top of misery on top of misery. But that is what makes it so good. I liked seeing Kim be sickly happy or fake and then have a wicked thought in her head, I liked that she could maintain that facade, I like that she slowly broke down as her desperation grew. Yeah, it was good.
Teenagers are cruel, crueler than you think. I’ll never read this book again.
courtneyyloves's review
3.0
Um what did I just read? It wasn’t what I was expecting.
It was madness that descended into murder, cannibalism, and ruining lives.
3 Stars mainly cause I think I have to like the point of view im reading from.
It was madness that descended into murder, cannibalism, and ruining lives.
3 Stars mainly cause I think I have to like the point of view im reading from.
bugsrcool49's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Sexual violence