Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

205 reviews

darcynewtonn's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad 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

This book has whole heartedly changed me. 
I'm going to try write this review as in depth as I can without giving anything way, i'll get back to you when in done.
Spoilers?: yeah no you’re safe don’t worry. 

Off the back of Haunting Adeline obviously H.D Carlton left us with our butts on the edge of our seats, our jaws on the floor and our hearts in our mouth. 
Throughout haunting Adeline, I'm not sure about anyone else but I developed such an emotional connection to the characters Adeline and Zade, in the Hunting Adeline this connection and understanding is only deepened, thoroughly. 

Hunting Adeline gets very sad, traumatic, heartbreaking and all round just deep as f**k, very fast. 
Right from the first chapter seen from 'The Diamond' aka Adeline, we're thrown into the beginning of her soon to be raging PTSD. The events that Adeline both whiteness' and becomes a victim to truly pulls your heart out, H.D is very good at explaining these events and almost making you feel like you are truly experiencing it. 

I said this in my review for Haunting Adeline and i'll say it again... this book is not for the faint hearted! However now I truly mean it, again without giving too much away, If you or anyone your close with have had experiences with g,rape, as brilliant as this book was, please don't read it if you have even the slightest suspicion that it could effect you, chances are it will. 

The book does get more lighthearted (if thats even possible when speaking about H.D Carlton's work).

Pulling this to a close, while this book was still incredible, it did make me cry at times, it did make me feel physically unwell at times but it as also completely changed the way I view a lot of things. 
I'd say this book is a real eye opener to the real world and the sort of things that can happen or do happen without our acknowledgement. 

I loved this book so so so much and I hope other people also see it in the way I did. 

If you've made it to the end of this review, thank you, and do send me a friend request as I love connecting with people that share the same interests. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Rape, Drug use, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Self harm, Sexism, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Child death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Stalking, Medical content, Murder, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit

feralsarah's review

challenging dark tense slow-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

2.0

Ugh. This book. I did not enjoy the first book so I didn't expect to enjoy this one either but holy shit did this one really double down on its terrible terribleness. My reasons why will be the content warnings, I just don't think these things need to be explicitly described to be impactful. I'm giving 2 stars instead of 0 because at least you do get to see the FMC heal from her trauma (sorta?) and get revenge. Predictable? Yes. Satisfying? Also yes. If you decide to read this duet do so knowing that it is dark dark dark and also dumb dumb dumb. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body shaming, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Confinement, Rape, and Trafficking

Moderate: Grief, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Drug use, and Medical content

very_fem_cave_dweller's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Death, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

spookychelle87's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Rape, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pedophilia, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Drug use, Bullying, Alcohol, Trafficking, and Addiction

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

cozycutefun's review

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

This book was just not as good as the first. I hated the first 35% , it truly just felt like trauma porn and I wished it happened a little bit sooner. The middle of this book though, obsessed with. When she escapes, gets found and is like healing and scheming to kill everyone, loved it. Then the last like 10/15% it was getting repetitive. They have an insane fuck, they brutally kill someone. Like my biggest grife with this book is they didn’t just love fuck once. It always had to be insanely graphic, like have sincere scene please. 

The sex just started to add nothing to the story and by the time I reached the end it felt anti climactic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Body horror, Gun violence, Trafficking, Vomit, Torture, Emotional abuse, Blood, Sexual assault, Gore, Confinement, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

s0cks's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual assault, Blood, Trafficking, Death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Stalking, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Mental illness, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual harassment

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

katiew221's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Unbelievably disturbing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Slavery, Grief, Gun violence, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Body horror, Misogyny, Cursing, Sexism, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Blood, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Gore, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

halleycos's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Blood, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Violence, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Physical abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, and Drug abuse

madivano's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

4.5

This book could have ended many chapters in, but I still appreciate the fact that we get to see what PTSD looks like during and after an incident. And is H. D. Carlton okay? 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Blood, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Confinement

lovebandit's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring slow-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

3.5

I’m usually not a “second book” type of person, I usually lose interest half way through the second book so my review could be bias. Hunting Adeline was not as good as the first book, Haunting Adeline. Mid/half point mark of the book, to me, they could have had the resolution of the plot and ended it. The other half of the book was dragged, it definitely had more erotic scene but I was already over it that I just skipped like the last 5 chapters to read the end. Sibby, honestly saved the last half of the book. I love her, she’s funny & I wish we got like a resolution or something for her. And one of the kid that Zade has rescued in part 1 that asked him to be her dad, I wish we got more on that here. Like he adopts her, a marriage scene with adeline or like “5 years after” they got kids and they live happily ever type shit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Body horror, Blood, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Trafficking, Sexual violence, and Stalking