Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

13 reviews

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

keen's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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: Body horror, Gore, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Alcohol and Confinement

Minor: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury

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

qcupquake's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

This Delicious Death
4/5

- i liked this book a lot

- i kinda hated how the plot came up so quickly. like val was like "hey i think i got drugged" and then zoey was like "oh yeah i remember doing research on that stuff" and the mystery about what made val go crazy was solved in like a page

- i like how diverse the cast is

- eli can suck an egg

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Deadnaming and Transphobia

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

taelights's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

The concept and world was interesting, but the execution wasn't the best. Honestly the writing wasn't the best and I think this book could have been shorter because it dragged a lot and kept losing my attention. I wanted to dnf but like I lost interest after the 50% mark so I felt like I had to finish it at that point but it took me forever because I kept not wanting to listen to it after a chapter or two. 

The book was predictable and cheesy, but not even in a fun way. Plus I HATED all the scenes with Cole. The only thing worse than a love triangle is when one love interest is a woman and the other is a man. It makes the love triangle trope 10× more unbearable. Like I am all for characters being bi and having bi rep. But there is a difference between mentions of them being bi or finding a man attractive vs full het makeout and flirting scenes which I don't want to read in a book that was marketed as having a sapphic romance thanks. Like the amount of content between Zoey with Cole was about equal to that with Celeste when I only cared about the Celeste x Zoey content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Death, Murder, Gore, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Deadnaming, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Transphobia

Death of Family Member, Death of Sibling, Death of grandparent, Drugging, Needles

annamorgan27's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Fire/Fire injury