Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

27 reviews

becca_w_'s review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Violence, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Body horror, Child abuse, Blood, Murder, Classism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Excrement

lynnloveshobi's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Alcohol, Blood, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Cannibalism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Animal death, Classism, Confinement, Violence, and War

gracecrandall's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

The best book in the trilogy. It was funny and loving but still had a bit of a thrill that left me on the edge of my seat. I love the characters I absolutely love cardan. These 3 books were the most easy reads I have read in a long time and I'm definitely going to read more of holly blacks books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, War, Violence, Blood, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror and Child abuse

joensign's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and War

Minor: Alcohol and Pregnancy

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Kidnapping, War, Sexual content, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Death, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Murder, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Slavery, and Torture

m_a_r_i_a_m's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Murder, and Sexual content

onefineelephant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

8/10. I liked this book the best out of the trilogy. It had the most romance, Jude finally had people she could trust and lean on, and the trajectory of the plot also made sense. Additionally, I will say that there were a few times that I was genuinely surprised which does not happen very often to me. I don't wholly love the romance between Jude and Cardan but I like it well enough. This isn't a stand-out series to me and I don't know if I will read it again considering I did not like the first book very much but I like it well enough to keep the books on my shelf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, War, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

thedevouringbookshelf's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Violence and Toxic relationship

filipa_maia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

This was the perfect ending to the perfect story.

When I first start reading The Cruel Prince I was not expecting to fall in love so dearly for this story. But everything about it made me keep reading it: the world creation is amazing, the intricacy of the story line, the political wars, the love, the fear, the hate... I was seriously committed to these characters and what would happen to them.

I'm very glad it ended the way it did. Can't wait to read more books by Holly Black.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, and War

Minor: Murder, Torture, Pregnancy, and Alcohol