Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

3 reviews

cleot's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It's not that the writing quality was bad, the story was just intense in a way that isn't to my taste. See content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, and Police brutality

Minor: Racism, Body shaming, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Child death, and Cancer

under-negotiated kink, blood kink, self surgery, sexual gratification from murder, false rape claim, parasite/ parasitic pregnancies

smolhandsdan's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Torture, Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, and War

laurenbookwitchbitch's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I don’t know what I was expecting out of this book but it was…not this. I thought “Sister Maiden Monster,” would be a terrifying cosmic horror with great queer rep. This was a body/medical horror nightmare with barely any good characters or plot. Even the medical horror part wasn’t thought out that well. “What if it was live covid…but worse?” That was the big revelation? Covid mixed with mad cow disease? I kept reading because it was a short book and I was waiting for it to get better. The plot went from ye olde “oh no I’ve been diagnosed with [insert weird gorey plague here]” to religious extremism and then to secret government agency real fast, all with little purpose or tact. As for the queer rep, it was…fine? I guess? I didn’t find anyone super interesting and every relationship in this book was just smeared with nasty over the top bodily fluids and tortured agony. I was not a fan and honestly ended up skim-reading the last half of this story because I just wanted it to be over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Body horror, Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Vomit

There’s a line between body-horror and just…gratuitous violence and horror for the “thrill” of it. This book crosses that line. Not a fan. Would not recommend .