Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

190 reviews

cleotheo's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

amissabellator's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

saturnpersonified's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Abandonment

Moderate: Murder

korolevakotykiv's review against another edition

3.75

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Animal death

_naanhanaa_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read this book for my AP Lang class because we are analyzing arguments in the literature. This book, to say the least, was more than I expected. The physiological analysis, the reason why this book was written, and Mary Shelly's life, the writing...just everything was amazing. The book isn't scary because of the supernatural "stuff." The book is scary because of the human experiences portrayed in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Suicide

golembutch's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Murder

nubecato's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent

plantdonut's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Grief

Minor: Racism, Violence, Stalking, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment

jorose's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail