Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Death Cure by James Dashner

9 reviews

authorannafaundez's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

There wasn't a whole lot of mystery in The Death Cure. It was more about survival and trust/betrayal. Which is fine, but I would've been happier with more questions answered about the sun flares, the virus, and the history surrounding the collapse of civilization. However, what we learn about what the Flare does to people is very well done. You see the virus at every stage, and it's terrifying.

I'm looking forward to the prequels and sequels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Gun violence, and Death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

isabella_gautreauuu's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

4.5

Beautiful ending, sad story and many loveable characters died, the reliving of them in the maze was crazy, really fast-paced, interesting plot, no questions answered and am still very confused, overall, great book and can't wait for the next one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Murder and Body horror

Minor: Suicide attempt

swimfast724's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? No

3.5

It was very very good but literally heartbreaking 
I was so upset with the ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Colonisation, Body horror, Violence, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma, Confinement, Police brutality, War, Grief, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug use, Abandonment, and Death of parent

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Body horror, and Murder

Moderate: Trafficking, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Suicide

bethboo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This one wasn't as good as the Scorch Trials or Maze Runner, but was a satisfying end to the series. It felt a bit rushed at the end, like too much plot had to happen to wrap it up. So much shit went down with almost no elaboration.
Again, I felt that the romance was forced and that the whole hatred between the girls was silly and unneeded.
Surprisingly violent and graphic, not that I'm complaining, because it made it more realistic. But you always expect a level of censorship for YA novels but the list of deaths in this one is staggering.
It was kind of cute that the boys kept getting into really dumb and stupid situations even after everything they had been through. 

 

Newt's death was absolutely traumatizing. I knew that he died bc of I watched all the movies first. But the DIALOGUE???? THE NOTE??? Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch ohhhhhhhh I'm in agony...fuck I loved that character
Fuck Theresa I could not care less. A lil disappointed her death was so gross
Loved how Tommy and Gally made up <3
Deaths in this one: Crushed by rocks, Swiss cheese by machine gun, cannibalism, sawed into pieces, kebabed by a greiver, cut throat by glass, run over by car, shot point blank, All on screen bby

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Blood, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Child death

tbs250's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Car accident, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

allym's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

Ugh, what a slog.

It's been a long time since I've read anything of Dashner's, so the writing style came at me like I was reading it for the first time.  I want to call it a lot of "telling, not showing", but there's something to his verb choice that aggravates me.  There's an awful lot of "Thomas now saw..." and "Thomas understood that..." and "It was obvious to Thomas."  The deeper I got into the audiobook, the more grating these descriptions were.  Thomas was at all times both omniscient and clueless.  Always making the exact right choices to get in the exact wrong situations from which he'd make the exact right choice to get out of... and then end up in another wrong situation, from which he'd make (you guessed it!) the exact right choice to escape.  And on it goes.  It was repetitive and monotonous.

Usually when I continue a series I'm not particularly in love with, I'm in it for a character.  And almost always, *somehow*, I pick the character that the author chooses to kill off or otherwise destroy in the next book.  I don't know how I do it - it's a knack, I guess.  But that happened again here where we were and will forever be stuck with THOMAS.  Boring, shallow, unexciting Thomas.  If you're going to have a Chosen One (which now he indisputably is) at least make him interesting.  The concept of this series remains really interesting, but its execution is subpar.

I'm definitely done with this series.  THE DEATH CURE was a long walk to nothing.  There was little to no character development, little to no plot progress, and the writing was grating.  There are so many better books to read by authors who do not sexually harass women and then gaslight them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, War, and Violence

toshita's review

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood