Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

18 reviews

kiaras's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

A truly excellent cabbage cart reference/joke. Tonally out of place? Yes. Enjoyed it anyway? ALSO YES. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

jokehelldo's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

I feel like in the first half too much was cut out. I needed slower burn back there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Emotional abuse

chelseytennis52's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Gore, Child death, and Death

kitrook's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 I liked this one. It took me a while to get into, but once it got going I felt immensely hooked. Couldn’t put it down. 

As for the reverse racism fantasy, a wonderful review by a Black individual is here, I suggest anyone looking to read the book reads it if they are worried about controversy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4812626829 

 

What Black people have to say about this book is important, whether or not they like it, but it is also important to debunk some of the false information spread about his book. The above review clarifies that. 

 

This book was an interesting analysis of power in many ways; of class relations, of blaming the wrong people for your oppression, but majorly: people taking on massive burdens to fight for their freedom. It begs the age old question, is there ever a wrong way to fight for freedom? For resistance? As the review I have linked to pointed out, both sides made very questionable moves but only ever in the name of protecting their people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Death of parent

quinnpjd930's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

victoriousbookworm's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gaslighting, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

omnisyncd's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Body horror, War, Child death, Death, Abandonment, Gore, Child abuse, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual content

immovabletype's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Child abuse, Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Bullying, and Classism

Minor: Medical content and Alcohol

h4rm0ny's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was so much better than I could’ve imagined. I went into completely blind and fell in love! I am going to have a massive book hangover after. 

I am only left with one question? How is the Sunra line going to continue if both siblings are gay? I mean yeah adoption but that could be a lot of political unrest. 

This book in three words is Queer, Zombie, Betrayal. It has enemies, to friends, to lovers, to enemies, to lovers and just classic friends to lovers. 

The writing is so wonderful my only critique is it uses the phrase “bile rose to her throat” and others like that far too many times. Other than that it had so many fabulous quotes that just hit you to your core, my favorite being, “You useless lesbian.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Vomit, War, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Confinement, and Cursing

Minor: Cannibalism