Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

190 reviews

janthemann's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Excellent Gothic literature read. I have a complicated opinion as I didn't like Frankenstein (annoying, whiney, self-pitying in short) but I resonated with the Creature very much.

Overall, a meaningful story about isolation and abandonment that hit home.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Abandonment

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child death

kam_be's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

katischr's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark tense medium-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

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Victor Frankenstein: the first person to make up a guy and get mad at him

Highly recommend the Audrey audiobook version of this story!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Racism

Minor: Death of parent

mxine_'s review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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rip frankenstein's monster you would have loved radiohead

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Dysphoria

bronz_dan's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Classic story of man’s arrogance leading to doom from lack of humanity. Created a genre and is still relevant today. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Death of parent

kirawantstoread's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One of my all-time favorite novels and my first exposure to the frame narrative. Extremely tragic and much more harrowing than I was anticipating when I read this as a high school sophomore. After finishing, my favorite type of villainous character became one who was done unbelievably dirty by the protag. Kudos to 19-year-old Mary Shelley for cranking this one out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment

janpie's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment

Minor: Body horror

byerduas's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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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The way every adaptation of this book completely missed the point is actually heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Incest, Medical content

flora_nora's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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, Abandonment

egganimates's review against another edition

3.0

dark 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder

Minor: Incest, Medical content, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail