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This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

16 reviews

bella613's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Fun, really fast read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Violence, Vomit, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Alcohol, Grief, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Deadnaming, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

spaghettii's review

Not my thing

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Vomit, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Eating disorder, and Gun violence

ee_comins's review

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cannibalism, Violence, Alcohol, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Transphobia, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Deadnaming, and Misogyny

reading_rogue13's review

funny hopeful fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Body horror, Gun violence, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical content

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, Medical content, Violence, Mental illness, Child death, Deportation, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Vomit, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Homophobia

lordslag's review

funny tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Really cool concept and such cute friendships and wlw romance. Hated the lesbian character being in love with a straight girl trope (you win some you lose some). The plot twist was really predictable and even though the book came with a trigger warning page it didn’t talk about the racism in the book? Which is off-putting to me especially when reading from non-black authors, paired with the first three pages being like, “This is Zoey, this is Zoey’s Black friend, this is Zoey’s white friend, and this is Zoey’s Latina friend”. Like it just gave me an icky feeling having the characters introductions being reduced to their race. I don’t know if maybe I had a bad copy because there was also some grammatical errors and my epilogue chapter says “ehilogue” so idk. All that aside it was still a fun story to read, I just don’t think I’ll be picking up anything else from this author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

nerdysread'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? It's complicated

4.75

Really liked it. More to come (probably)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

midgereads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

This book was a lot better than I expected. It’s VERY gory so it’s perfect for halloween, but it also has some funny moments, so it’s a nice balance. It’s also pretty short and very readable, I had a hard time putting it down sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, Violence, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Death, Grief, Confinement, Murder, Alcohol, Cursing, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Sexism

Minor: Deadnaming and Transphobia

erica_reads_things's review

adventurous 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? No

4.25

What a fun, witty YA horror! I really really enjoyed this. Not an incredibly unique premise, however, the plot was fun and I loved the characters a lot. I would recommend a book like this for folks looking to explore horror genres but not wanting to start with something too intense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Alcohol, and Gun violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Deadnaming, Animal death, and Drug use

bubblepricks's review

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was 110% written by Tina Belcher & you can not convince me otherwise. 
a lil cheeky, a lil horny, & a lil gory- I really enjoyed flying through this book & I would read more about the word of Hollow people. 

ALSO the paperback print comes with a list of content warnings at the very beginning- thank you Kayla! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Confinement, Blood, Cannibalism, Sexism, Alcohol, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Drug use, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic