Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

37 reviews

trashynucleus's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism, Stalking, Abortion, and Alcohol

denee16's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? It's complicated

2.25

I'll start by saying I actually really like CJ Leede's writing. Her word choice, vivid descriptions, well constructed characters (despite the insanity) was truly impressive. 
The amount of times I had to pause and process the insanity that I read was too many to count. I'm awful with gore descriptions, if you are too, this isn't the book for you. It was, to say the least, a LOT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Toxic friendship

zoidtobias's review

challenging dark tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

amaranth_wytch's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Rape, Terminal illness, and Cannibalism

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Stalking

gmrickel's review against another edition

3.0

This was my first extreme horror & transgressive novel and WOW was it a lot! Despite unlikeable characters and <i>really</i> disturbing, violent scenes, the writing was really compelling and I found myself glued to the story. Did I like it? Eh, lol, not sure I can say that. But it did grip me. Definitely something I'd suggest for a very specific reader. I can't wait to read Leede's sophomore novel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, and Stalking

Moderate: Drug use

anatomicalpuppet's review

challenging dark funny tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

welsh_witch's review

I loved this from the first sentence, and I read about 3/4 of it, but Maeve got too disgusting and disturbing for me and I put it down, intending to DNF it. But I kept thinking about it… Had to go back and finish it off. Unfortunately, I’m not sure the ending

(starting with the drugging, torture, and murder of Andre and Liz, which is where I tapped out)

was as good as the rest of the book. Anyway, not for the faint of heart.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Excrement

thisiskellyok's review against another edition

dark 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

Deliciously dark, if a bit too much for me at times. A little let down by the ending, but overall a good one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

The sexual violence and animal death happens “off screen” or whatever the equivalent of that is for a book, but it is mentioned and described though not while it’s happening.

mercuryretrobae's review

challenging dark emotional medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

alukalani's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

I enjoyed this budding serial killer story. It definitely gives American Psycho vibes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Hate crime, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism