Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

279 reviews

chasehoffman's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.25

the sex scenes written like body horror were a bit too frequent for my personal tastes, but the story was compelling enough for me to push through

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

arinheck's review

dark funny sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

kutreen's review

adventurous dark informative reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book should've been picked up by a bigger publisher and gotten more publicity!!

The writing is phenomenal. You can tell the author wrote about aspects of all the trans women she has known, loved, and perhaps been throughout her life. I resonated with and appreciated a lot of the commentary on what it means to be a woman and what feminism is.

Besides all that, the action and the drama are awesome! It's perfectly paced. You read from many different perspectives (usually just 3/4, with some others sprinkled throughout), and they are interspersed perfectly. I never got bored of a single perspective.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

melanied927's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

katischr's review against another edition

Libby automatically returned the book when I was a quarter of the way in and that was fine with me. The gang rape scene was a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Transphobia, and Medical content

iphotosympathize's review against another edition

Gore is not for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Cannibalism

actuallyirina's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a challenging read, often quite upsetting. The writing style was a bit jarring at first. If you're in a place where you can stomach it I think it's a good read to help you examine your biases and internalized transmisogyny. I'm trans and there was still stuff in here that I was like oops didn't realize I'd internalized that gotta keep that in check. It's a heartbreaking gutwrenching book, Beth and Fran are messy and complicated and imperfect but my god do you just want these women to catch a fucking break.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, Outing, Dysphoria, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mothswarm's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Misogyny, Rape, and Transphobia

surprisebear's review against another edition

I slogged through as much as I could, thinking I just wasn't used to horror writing. It's my least read genre. I decided to quit after I read the reviews, and even the positive reviews commented on the gruesome, gory writing. Definitely not for me, especially with the whiplash between scenes that are incredibly horny, and scenes that were the grossest, most wretched things I've ever read. Maybe there's something meaningful about gender that could be found, but I'm not willing to dig through the viscera for it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jojothefool's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.25

I really enjoyed this novel and had so much fun listening to it. I’m not a huge apocalyptic genre fan or like war heavy stuff so some parts of this were rough to get through or just not my cup of tea, but this will definitely stick with me for a while and I did enjoy myself. Heed the trigger warnings!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infertility, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting