Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

160 reviews

rainbownp's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

The book was very interesting at points but had many periods where it just felt insane. I honestly started questioning so many things because it was all over the place.  The premise was very good and it was not horribly written, just not great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Cancer, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Addiction, and Self harm

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

andrearutz98's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Addiction, Death of parent, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Child death, Drug use, and Excrement

90centspaghet's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful tense slow-paced

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

1.75

This book was slow to get into…hence it took me fully out of reading for a bit and 3 months to finish…but the second half was compelling and adventurous. It was quite mysterious and I liked how you had to attribute things back to real horror works and slashers. Unfortunately the slow start really pushes it down in the ratings significantly for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Terminal illness, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, and Violence

elislittlelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

2.5

I had really high hopes for this book. The concept was really unique, but the book left me wanting a lot more. Some descriptions felt like the cliché "woman written by a man", which I didn't like. I did like getting to know the women, but would've liked to know more about all of them, as some in particular remained very vague. In general, there were some plot points that I thought would be tied up in the end, but they weren't, which left me wanting more. Also, while the ending was somewhat fitting for the set-up and the topic of the book, it felt like it just suddenly derailed (at least to me). It was a pretty quick read, but I expected a lot more and the book left me feeling disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Addiction, and Panic attacks/disorders

imbatmanbrb's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Body horror

luca97's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I was so into this book that I read it in one day. Highly recommend for those who like horror and a bit of dark humor. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Gun violence, and Gore

laurenexploresbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.5

This was a challenging work for me. I personally did not find this work to be enjoyable due to the mass amount of gore and trauma porn throughout the work. I appreciated the last 20 percent of the work, but again I felt like I did not fully get to connect with characters within this work. I kept going out of anger and horror than enjoyment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Murder, Vomit, Gun violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Stalking, and Child death

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

I really am sick of being a hater but damn, it’s just SO easy. 

ALL of the characters are annoying and unlovable, their backstories are just copy and pasted classic slasher movies that were chopped and screwed the TINIEST bit. There’s no originality to them whatsoever, even down to their names. I get it’s supposed to be an homage but it feels more like borderline plagiarism or parody. Not to mention that some of the specific movies he picked to steal from are unrealistic in real life scenarios. There's like five bad guy fake outs, it’s overkill once you finally get the big (predictable and also just straight up taken from Scream 4 and 5) picture. There was a weird feminist take he was halfassed trying to make but it felt insincere and patronizing. Killing the only black character first (off screen!), having her buy her movie rights and not fix the whitewashing of her own trauma, and then having her be a hypeman hallucination for a white woman to survive, TO THEN let one of the masterminds behind her death into their support group is just in such bad taste. There really isn’t a redeeming quality of this book for me.

tldr: I’m revoking Grady Hendrix’s writing privileges. He’s going in the chokey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Body horror, Car accident, Grief, Medical content, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse, Incest, Alcohol, Animal death, Cannibalism, Addiction, Abandonment, and Pedophilia

narbine's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.25

interesting premise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Torture, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, and Stalking

cssquared's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

I had high expectations and it lived up to the hype. The characters were highly developed and the story was exciting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Addiction, Child death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Body horror, Death, Murder, Violence, Torture, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Drug abuse, Gore, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Rape