Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

58 reviews

momostark's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Sexual content

shiveringstar's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape

maybephasing's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Rape and Sexual content

dogearedbooks's review

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity

maryncemetery's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Gore, Death, and Sexual violence

micah_thelibrarian's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Cursing and Sexual content

sarah984's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

This book was fine, but overall it was disappointing to me. The characters all felt very one note and unrealistic (Julia's actions were at least interesting but her reasons for doing them were pretty stupid), aside from

Julia's murders

the gore almost all takes place off-page or is barely described (why else am I reading this?) and the prose was so overwrought and goofy.

There is a part near the end where Barker wants to convey that a dead character is possessed by one of the cenobites so that character turns to Kirsty and essentially just says, "I'm a cenobite!"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Self harm, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

queenkath32's review against another edition

dark tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Body horror, Sexual content, Blood, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

chervbim's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, and Torture

booksandcoffeewithlexi's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore