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Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede

22 reviews

pigsjillyjiggs's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Torture, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Vomit, Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

hconnellyal's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Murder, Grief, Gore, Vomit, and Blood

Minor: Suicide

holy_moly_colee's review

This book had a really cool concept about the clashing life styles one person could.lead at the same time. I did not finish the book because it was too explicit, gory, and overall just gross at a lot of parts. I think it was just vulgur for the shock factor and it just wasn't my vibe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Excrement, Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Gore, and Torture

shadowykittenwizard's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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: Death, Murder, Body horror, Alcohol, Torture, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, and Cursing

Minor: Sexism, Drug abuse, Excrement, Grief, Drug use, Gaslighting, Bullying, Stalking, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, and Vomit

trashgobby's review

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Terminal illness, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Animal death, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Bullying

Minor: Classism, Cursing, Misogyny, Vomit, Suicide, and Body shaming

natahoochie's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WTF. Horrifying. Brutal. Incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Drug use, Stalking, Gore, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Body horror, Blood, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Murder, Death, Child death, Bullying, Rape, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia and Vomit

Minor: Abortion

gen_wolfhailstorm's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

What a deeply disturbing and fantastic book.

Have was such an unhinged character but I somehow rooted for her and was utterly devastated by the ending.

There was a humorous yet strange scene that was definitely an ode to Patrick Batemen watching himself having sex.

This was such a captivating story. It was like a train wreck - I just couldn't look away. Every time I put the book down, it was all I could think about.

It had me physically cringing in disgust and shouting out in disturbance and I loved every moment of it.

This is going to stick with me for a very long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Excrement, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Torture

fairygodfish's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Hmm. Could have done without

the sexual assault. It didn’t add anything to the experience and kind of ruined the tone

. Other than that I honestly quite enjoyed it, think the author has a few views on womanhood I don’t quite agree with but would love to talk to them about. Would also love a Tallulah Fly-centric book. 

At the end of the day it’s extreme horror and some of it is horror is for the sake of being shocking. That’s not necessarily a bad thing for me,

aside from, once again, the sexual assault

. Sometimes the camp tone feels forced but sometimes it’s kind of awesome. I definitely appreciate the character of Maeve Fly and am glad she’s out in the world. Contained in these pages. Please god, nobody let Maeve Fly out in the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Alcohol, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Torture, Violence, and Rape

Moderate: Stalking, Vomit, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

Points off for the inclusion of (potentially?) Johnny Depp. No thanks

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Stalking, Terminal illness, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, and Fatphobia

sarah984's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

I picked this up because of the cool looking cover, after seeing it recommended as "feminist body horror" on Likewise. So if you are like me I will save you some time: it's not feminist or body horror. The cover is cool though.

The main character is a woman but she hates and/or belittles all other women (except her grandmother, who is a complete non-entity in this story) and thinks she's unique as a woman due to her misanthropy. The book makes a big deal about it being sexist that stories require women to have trauma to be villains when men can just do what they want, but then gives Maeve villain trauma. The romance is all "oh he was so much bigger than me" straight people crap.

Several quotes and entire scenes are lifted whole cloth from American Psycho but nothing interesting is done with that at all.

I really have to wonder who this book was for. I feel like it was somehow simultaneously too much and too tame, like it's not extreme horror because pretty much everything "extreme" happens off screen, but too much "extreme" content is implied for this to appeal to normies. Baffling book.

Some of the Halloween music trivia was interesting, so 2 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Medical content, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Confinement, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Classism, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Pedophilia, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Grief, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Vomit, Drug use, Stalking, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Racism