Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

8 reviews

dinosaurhorrorshow's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

I’m so conflicted with how to rate this book. There were parts of this book that I absolutely loved and were wonderfully well written and beautiful…and then there were parts that i hated so much and I don’t understand why the author thought to write them the way he did. I think I understand what the author was trying to accomplish but there are better ways to show absolute human suffering without constantly defaulting to SA. 
Also there was really no reason for the n word to be in here multiple times. Yes the bad guys where purposely being derogatory but they were in a weird futurist sci-fi world…there’s other ways that could have been written. 
I love the premise of this book and I love the love story and the characters are creative and quirky (honestly except for the main character, he’s just kinda a generic dude) but he didn’t have so much audacity that it bothered me. 
So I guess this gets three stars, right in the middle because my love/hate with this one is 50/50.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Sexual assault, Body horror, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Rape, Torture, Slavery, Cancer, Cannibalism, and Physical abuse

alistu's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Why did he have to say the n-word, the message would've come across with literally any made up slur. There was no reason. The author is a white man, this was written in 2017... But I don't think the book should be edited to exclude this word now, it's a great topic of conversation. Is it okay for white people to say the n-word in literature? Why? What makes it different then actually speaking it? Or writing it online? 

It was a good read otherwise, sometimes sweet, a lot of the times fucked up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Torture, Body horror, Racial slurs, and Violence

necro_mance's review

The whole time I kept thinking it was badly written but there were some interesting ideas so I pushed on. It was very clearly a white guy writing about a religion and culture he was only slightly familiar with. There was the fact every life he lived had a "sexy teen" story, was almost always white except when he needed to virtue signal and  just randomly and without warning sexual assault might happen.

The final straw was in life where it all sexy naked teenagers on a distant planet and one of the upper class refer to the all white as "moon n-words" hard R. I looked up the author, he is so very middle aged and white.

Suzie, aka death, has no characterization other being into The Coolest Guy Ever™️ main character, Milo.

Terry Pratchett was glib but it worked because there was a lot of heart with his characters and in his writing in general. Michael Poore is no Terry Pratchett 




 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Child death, Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Classism, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

maeanimates's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Body horror, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicide, Rape, and Sexual assault

kcgarris's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

this shit rewired my brain.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Body horror, Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

nicheinterests's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this story is very episodic. most chapters can be read as short stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Body horror, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Slavery, Cancer, and Suicide

thathippyt's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Genocide, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, Rape, War, Excrement, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Deportation, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Incest, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Dementia

basilelliott's review

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Sexual content