Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

5 reviews

katiechu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

This book would not be for everyone but somehow was exactly what I needed to read right now. I have been describing it as part werewolf erotica and part spy thriller but you could also add

tragic romance

to the mix. Despite the graphic content, I think it’s beautifully written which I also appreciated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Cursing, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug use, Excrement, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infertility, Vomit, Pregnancy, Rape, and Torture

arkwen452's review against another edition

Its well written and has a poetic, visural narrative. With that said, it ia also a dark book. I had to read it in small doses. I will have to come back to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Torture, Cannibalism, Animal death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

heyfernance's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.75

That guy who spent the entire party talking at you about Quentin Tarantino wrote a werewolf book. 

The concept is fun but it hasn’t aged well, that self-effacing ironic humour of the 2010s is in full force. This is a re-read for me, originally I read it in about 2015, I remember enjoying it more back then. 

That being said I’m gonna read the next two because I’m attached to the characters now and I’m a sucker for werewolves.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Body horror

c*nt is used incessantly to describe vaginas, almost always in a sexual context, iirc no other word is ever used. Weird choice man

bookbuzzard's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.5

I really should have stopped reading at the 'I'm not a misogynist, but..."  near the beginning of the book. 
All you need to know to determine if this book isn't for you is that at one point, the main character compares his partner's (NSFW)

wolf vagina to 'a fevered baby's mouth'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Sexism, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Grief, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Confinement, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Infertility, Kidnapping, Stalking, Animal death, Medical content, Pregnancy, Ableism, Child death, Vomit, Body horror, Genocide, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement, Abandonment, Rape, Sexual violence, Cancer, Car accident, Incest, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

twoclaws's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Cannibalism, Sexual content, and Body horror