Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Scanlines by Todd Keisling

12 reviews

gondorgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Self harm, Vomit, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Suicide, and Gun violence

mossroot's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Scanlines was such an enjoyable read. This book really does shed light on the darkness of the human obsession with death. A ghost type story that leaves you questioning if the characters are actually crazy or if this is actually happening. Such a short read, there's no reason not to give scanlines a try. It's real, a real book about the real ways that people deal with trauma. 

Scanlines took me an hour to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Terminal illness

horrorfemme15's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I’ve been burned by a lot of small-publication and self-published horror lately so I was skeptical coming into this book. However, it far exceeded my expectations. This one is a heartbreaker too. We don’t get a happy ending, but we know that from the start. It’s all about the journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Blood, Suicide, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

takecoverbooksptbo's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Scanlines is absolutely deserving of the title « the most disturbing book I’ve ever read ». It’s not the most violent or gruesome story you’ll read, but it will bother you.

Having said that, the novel is very effective. As an exploration of depression, suicide, morbid curiosity, and self-destructive desires, it’s among the best horror stories I’ve come across. It’s a coming of age narrative in the worst way possible and, I guess I’ll leave it at that. Check it out and abandon all hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, and Terminal illness

spacemonkey25's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gore, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Cancer

castamere's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

kermit_the_wrong's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

marykendrick666_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Gore, Addiction, Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

masscrafter's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Murder, Self harm, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, and Gore

madarauchiha's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

What I expected. Reddit nosleep creepypasta levels of writing exploiting a suicidal man's death, with all the gimmicks and tropes well retread, written mainly to say 'first!' when it comes to a horror story about this dead man.

What I got. A delve into midwestern small town early 90s 00s depression fueled ableism towards mental illness and toxic masculinity, bootstrap mentality, and oh yeah, suicide horror. IS that a genre, suicide horror? I guess it'd fall under paranormal. Ringu was suicide horror, to a degree, innit desu? Let's call it suicide horror, a sub sub sub to the etc degree genre of paranormal horror.

Anyways, yeah it deserves the 4 star rating [as of writing this]. It's creepy, horrific, graphic, there's depth to it so you're thinking about it long after finishing, and it hits all the neat horror tropes but in a well done way. If you can handle suicide and child death, give it a go.

major addiction, asphyxiation, child death, gore, gun violence, psychosis, suicide

medium alcoholism, cancer,  classism,  

minor addiction, car crash, drug use marijuana and prescription drugs,  gore, parental death, religion christianity?, religious bigotry, sexism, sexual content, usa 9/11 event, vomit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Addiction, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, and Vomit