Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

35 reviews

teatowel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Gilded spins a tale of a girl in a magical world who comes to realize her true power in a dark, emotional whirlwind of an adventure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Child death, Gore, Kidnapping, and Murder

aturb92's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Body horror

anna_graham's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Child death

Moderate: Animal death

k_galloway's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

3.5

a blossoming love story with narry a plot. enjoyable to read but also felt like there wasn’t much that happened in the story overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Colonisation, Slavery, Gore, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Abortion

maddox22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Slavery, Blood, Torture, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Seriously all the trigger warnings for child murder

trips's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Marissa Meyer still doin' this thing in her books, I believe I've discussed it in other reviews but, gorl really has like 1-3 really good ideas and filling in the plot around those ideas is always incredibly slow and gets rather dull at times. But then when we get to a well-blocked idea, the writing gets exciting, vibrant and luscious again. 
The story itself was entertaining enough, seeing how the tale of Rumpelstiltskin could play out in a YA Fantasy Romance was fun. I think the loose adaptation and playing into German folklore was great, honestly. But the dull parts are so dull, its hard to say I truly enjoyed reading this book. Regardless, I'll still read Cursed because I read every Marissa Meyer book now I guess, lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Child death

Moderate: Body horror and Pregnancy

laneys_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Abortion

thecatconstellation's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I went so back and forth with this book. There are parts that I really enjoyed and I will definitely read the second one. But at times it felt like this was dragging on, and I don’t particularly love any of the characters. I also found it at times just utterly depressing for no reason, like things being sad not for the plot but just to be sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Blood, Child death, Death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Abortion, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual content

ambaright's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.25

This book truly is a Rumpelstiltskin retelling, with all of the turning straw into gold gimics. As always, Marissa Meyer puts a great twist to the original fairy tales, this time with the chemistry between Gild, the castle poltergeist, and Serilda, the protagonist. Along with the villainous Erlking, the book is full of the dark and twisted stories found in the original Grimm fairy tale. 

While the book was readable, and left on a great page turner for the sequel, it was very drawn out to be 500 pages. There was a lot of fluff in the book, while medium to fast paced, that was unnecessary. I also can’t imagine how this is still ya due to how gruesome some of the descriptions are. That being said, I’m still looking forward to reading the next book in the future, maybe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, and Child death

Minor: Cannibalism

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

3.75

It’s tricky because I believe Marissa Meyer is a master at her craft. This was genius storytelling, in my opinion, but I also don’t like scary things and I would classify this book as horror. Sooo I’m amazed by the storytelling and horrified by the contents.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abortion