Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Leech by Hiron Ennes

96 reviews

samsquanch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Rape, Child death, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

ichewonpushpins's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Sexual violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Fatphobia

Horrible Gothic horror brutality told with a dry, clinical tone. This book was a bizarre and shockingly violent ride.

nsaphra's review

dark 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

Why isn’t everyone talking about this book?? I’m obsessed, this book is sickening. It’s a gothic horror narrated by a HIVEMIND that controls every doctor in the world. It has all my favorite horror elements:
- body horror
- philosophical “what is the self” horror
- medical paranoia (who’s infected? Every detail feels like foreshadowing)
- unsettling nonhuman perspective

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Violence, Death, Suicide, Body horror, and Chronic illness

harpybuns's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

This book answers the question, what if Tamsyn Muir wrote a gothic horror novel set in a post-apocalyptic society as told by a hivemind symbiote? It's gross, it's cryptic, it's heartbreaking. I fucking loved it.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Infertility

Minor: Animal cruelty, Grief, Vomit, and Gun violence

s_teichman's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was worth reading- it does very interesting things with the self and the first-person narrative and brings up some great points for contemplation- but it is not an easy book to read. Please mind the content warnings and brace yourself to be disturbed by at least one thing in this book. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Medical content

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide and Miscarriage

falloutrocker's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Gore

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

luthienslibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Body horror, Blood, Child abuse, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, and Sexual assault

vulgarboy's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Something in this had a grip on my throat that refused to let me go, and I am so glad it didn't. I thought I knew what I was getting into- a weird A Cure For Wellness retelling or something tht drew inspiration from it. Good god was I wrong. There was so much in this that scratched such a specific itch for me, it was incredible. A bizarre post-apocalytic world where humanity is trying to regain their footing, folklore being retold and genuinely being real in this world, humans integrating machinery (that had lead to the apocalypse itself) into their bodies so they can keep living. Characters are so brutally human, their actions so sorrowfully believable. It's not so clogged with medical jargon that I, who has no knowledge of anything medically in-depth, couldn't keep up. I found myself unable to put this down. What a delightfully freaky little book this was. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault, Racism, and Animal cruelty

kylieqrada's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

While this did indeed take me 12 years to read (my new normal thanks to pregnancy), it never lost my interest. So fascinating and explores so many important themes. Plus it was just gross enough without feeling gratuitous. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, and Physical abuse

unboxedjack's review

dark mysterious 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

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexual assault