Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

5 reviews

purplepenning's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Excrement, Stalking, Grief, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

gayghostprince's review against another edition

funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

it's not deep literature, but it's fun. sue me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Violence, Murder, and Gore

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

Minor: Homophobia, Cursing, Confinement, and Sexual assault

the sexual assault is implied in one sentence. that's all.

christinefredrickson's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and Murder

welkinvault's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

The prose is very caustically witty, in this very self aware tropy urban fantasy.  The plot is a bit of a mess, and I thought I had missed a prequel as so much happened in the past that kept being referred to (I personally want to read the book of what happend to Kate and Patrick when they were 17).  The characters were not very loveable, but fascinating all the same.  If I read the next book it will be because I want to read more about Elise (loved Elise!!) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Addiction, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

greymalkin's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

A delightful paranormal romance romp that has so much more queer rep and female-characters than 99% of most paranormal romances.  I especially enjoyed the solid worldbuilding.  Plot was a little messy and rambled a bit but overall was easy to follow. 

There are some scenes of grossness and body horror.  Not necessarily violence but grossness with puss and maggots.   I skipped those parts.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror