Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

157 reviews

junefish's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Deadnaming, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

The first chapter is fairly representative of the kind of "gory splattercore" (as it says in the ending acknowledgements) that this book has.

mistawenis's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Abortion, Murder, Outing, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

cristina_margarita's review

adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.0

I had super complicated feelings about this book that I’m still unpacking 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, and Toxic friendship

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

This book is unhinged, violent, vulgar, provocative, and wild in the best way possible. 
This dystopian/horror is the first one I have really enjoyed in a long time.
I will be thinking about this book until the apocalypse comes 

Very minor spoiler: JKR gets her comeuppance.    

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Outing, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

booknerd85's review

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, War, and Classism

emmague89's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mcornell's review

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

WOWIE. If you can stomach this book, I cannot recommend it enough. I regularly read thrillers, and I had to put this down multiple times because it was so gory. HOWEVER, the social commentary and discussion of queerness, aesthetics, and identity were phenomenal. It’s just shy of 5 ⭐️S only because we bounced so much from plot line to plot line that I had a hard time keeping track once we got to the climax. So good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Fatphobia, and Outing

lycheejelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Excrement, Abortion, and Pregnancy

emmalouisereads's review

adventurous dark tense fast-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

3.5

If you’re looking for a subtle commentary on the current “war on gender” - this book isn’t it. This book unashamedly slaps you in the face with its message. And I guess, why not? 

Sometimes it was a little jarring for real people to be interwoven into the story, so I think I might have preferred the occasional representative fictional character for celebrities (not because I’m worried about the feelings of certain people). 

It’s definitely an unpleasant read in places, I’d advise caution to anyone who would struggle reading passages of violent rapes and transphobia (including attacks/ deaths of trans people). 

The story is fast based with real and messy characters. It made me incredibly sad about how things are right now, but I also enjoyed it a lot - in between feeling quite sick at the thought of eating testicles …

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, and Cannibalism

agavemonster's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

What a read! Touched and disturbed me, and made me confront the ways in which I have failed to live up to my values about my trans siblings. I found the book somber and cruel but not heartless, the depiction of apocalypse unusually clear-sighted, and the "victory" at the end more heartbreaking than victorious. The gore and body horror, which are indeed graphic, could not be removed without damaging our empathy and embodiment with the characters. Other reviewers have called the book's tone depressing or bitter; I think that the end of the world was/is/will be painful, and people suffer and make each other suffer, even people who love each other, and to depict that other than truthfully is an injustice.

A few minor annoyances:

• Semi-frequent image and phrase repetition: things and people smell or look like milk, the men-beasts are always described with the same few adjectives, hair is "cornsilk." The only niggling distraction from otherwise fabulously fluid and visceral prose
• Teach's motivation seemed flimsy and one-dimensionally rage monster, especially when compared to deputy Ramona, who was deeply grotesque and complex in her anesthetization, denial, anger, and self-pitying lashing out. Teach's one brief POV scene at the end weakened rather than strengthened her character. Would have liked her point of view to be more developed and three-dimensional. People who hate another type of person enough to commit genocide usually have a mess of complex thoughts about that type of person, not just one-dimensional disgust
• Several times, the men busted in at the perfect moment and "saved the day" for the protags by distracting or attacking their intelligent enemies in a way that struck me as a little contrived

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Murder, Outing, War, and Injury/Injury detail