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relin's review against another edition
challenging
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
A unique take on Superheros and the problems they cause. As seen as from the perspective of a villain's hench-person. Really cool world and walking through it was so good.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Outing, Kidnapping, Torture, Body horror, Violence, Medical content, and Gore
Moderate: Alcohol, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Stalking
erebus53's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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
4.25
This is a book that I picked up as a recommendation from a guy I met in school (hi!). I don't typically seek Super Hero books, but this one definitely has all the twists that I need for it to be a really rewarding read. As I looked at the cover I noticed that it has the endorsement of Seanan McGuire (aka Mira Grant) which I wondered at, but after reading 10% of the way into the book I began to see some of the same sort of stellar background Disability narrative as I had noticed in "Into The Drowning Deep" by Mira Grant. Props for the use of the word "neuro-atypical". I should use that more.
In a world of Supers, this is a story that feels like it was inspired by movies like The Incredibles. In that film, superheroes are banned from openly using their powers because they cause too many lawsuits and too much collateral damage. I can't help but feel like this is one of the few superhero stories I have read that asks the question "but what about real physics?". There is no guarantee that grabbing a falling person is going to SAVE them - you grab them wrong they may end-up with a spinal injury and die on the spot. You stop them too fast and they might as well have hit concrete. In this kind of world, Anna works as a temp.. a Hench. The agency that she is hired through manages help for super villains - anyone from drivers, hitmen, body guards, consorts, and militias, to secretaries, programmers, baristas, makeup artists, and greeting staff. Super Villains can have expensive tastes.
After standing about being a token female in a publicity lineup of Henches for a bad employer called The Electric Eel ("really.. call me E") Anna finds herself trapped in a hospital bed recovering from a complicated spiral fracture of the femur, as a result of being man-handled by a clumsy superhero. This injury leaves her with a permanent limp. During her long recovery, holed up on a friend's couch, she latches onto the idea of running the numbers to quantify just how much damage this hero causes - which she then blogs about. She catches the eye of that superhero's nemesis who is impressed by her efficiency. This nemesis is a mysterious villain known as Leviathan. Anna is off down a rabbit hole of statistics and strategic planning for the big-bad, but the employee benefits are top-notch.
Natalie Zina Walschots describes hospitals in a way that feels real; the disempowerment, sleep deprivation, pain and lack of lucidity, days that blend together in a fog. Even rehabilitation after a broken bone is recounted with the appreciation of physiotherapists that you hate while they are helping you, because of the necessary brutality of the discipline. The observations are visceral and sardonic.
It's clear that the author loves wordplay.. there are a few (wonderful) bad puns, but I'm left wondering if the decision to make the main character's surname Tromedlov (a name that in an American accent sounds like "traumaed love") could possibly be because she knows what it's like when people think your surname sounds like something else (wall-shots?). As I can't find a whole heap of information about the author, this is pure conjecture on my part.
I noticed more than one reference to New Zealand (my home <3 Aotearoa ahau!) in this book. The author is Canadian but has obviously had dialogue (kōrero) about Māori tattooing practice, with someone at least, as one of her supporting characters is wahine Māori and has moko kauae (lip/chin tattoos). In The Auditor's number-crunching of collateral damage from a superhero, she likens him to an earthquake, and uses similar formulae that have been used to account for the loss of human life hours in natural disasters such as the Christchurch Earthquakes (in my hometown). Ooof.. that blind-sided me a bit. Quoting the number of hours lost to that earthquake I couldn't help but think... "uh - some of those were mine?!". As I relocated out of the city, and threw my life upside down a bit, as a direct consequence of that seismic activity, that hit close to home.
This story is underpinned by a lot of personal relationships that grow and change throughout. The setting is queer-norm and there are non-binary, trans- and various sorts of queer characters. The main character is interested in various types of people, but this only adds to her angst as she finds that living a life on the dark side can get risky for her, and riskier for any person she gets close to. As some of the supers are barely human it seems silly that they be limited to cis-het norms anyway. There's some mention of sub-dom play in there too. Cool to have some elder rep in this as well, and an account of elder-care facilities for folk with super-abilities, yet failing physical and cognitive function.
A Feminist narrative is very blatant as Anna is dubbed "the Auditor" (*shudder* SUPERvillainous!) by an abusive guy, and she develops a working relationship with another woman with superpowers who has been a sidekick, so overshadowed that some of her powers have been attributed to her (male) partner. It seems that the hero narrative must be maintained for the public good.. even if she has to do all the heavy lifting.
The double standard seems obvious to the audience.. well.. me. The Auditor is furious that another woman is being sidelined by an oppressive partner, all the while she herself is a support character to Leviathan's main. Even though she's coming up with all his best plans, she still feels like she's not the one running the show. I can only hope that's going to be explored more in the second book.
In a world of Supers, this is a story that feels like it was inspired by movies like The Incredibles. In that film, superheroes are banned from openly using their powers because they cause too many lawsuits and too much collateral damage. I can't help but feel like this is one of the few superhero stories I have read that asks the question "but what about real physics?". There is no guarantee that grabbing a falling person is going to SAVE them - you grab them wrong they may end-up with a spinal injury and die on the spot. You stop them too fast and they might as well have hit concrete. In this kind of world, Anna works as a temp.. a Hench. The agency that she is hired through manages help for super villains - anyone from drivers, hitmen, body guards, consorts, and militias, to secretaries, programmers, baristas, makeup artists, and greeting staff. Super Villains can have expensive tastes.
After standing about being a token female in a publicity lineup of Henches for a bad employer called The Electric Eel ("really.. call me E") Anna finds herself trapped in a hospital bed recovering from a complicated spiral fracture of the femur, as a result of being man-handled by a clumsy superhero. This injury leaves her with a permanent limp. During her long recovery, holed up on a friend's couch, she latches onto the idea of running the numbers to quantify just how much damage this hero causes - which she then blogs about. She catches the eye of that superhero's nemesis who is impressed by her efficiency. This nemesis is a mysterious villain known as Leviathan. Anna is off down a rabbit hole of statistics and strategic planning for the big-bad, but the employee benefits are top-notch.
Natalie Zina Walschots describes hospitals in a way that feels real; the disempowerment, sleep deprivation, pain and lack of lucidity, days that blend together in a fog. Even rehabilitation after a broken bone is recounted with the appreciation of physiotherapists that you hate while they are helping you, because of the necessary brutality of the discipline. The observations are visceral and sardonic.
It's clear that the author loves wordplay.. there are a few (wonderful) bad puns, but I'm left wondering if the decision to make the main character's surname Tromedlov (a name that in an American accent sounds like "traumaed love") could possibly be because she knows what it's like when people think your surname sounds like something else (wall-shots?). As I can't find a whole heap of information about the author, this is pure conjecture on my part.
I noticed more than one reference to New Zealand (my home <3 Aotearoa ahau!) in this book. The author is Canadian but has obviously had dialogue (kōrero) about Māori tattooing practice, with someone at least, as one of her supporting characters is wahine Māori and has moko kauae (lip/chin tattoos). In The Auditor's number-crunching of collateral damage from a superhero, she likens him to an earthquake, and uses similar formulae that have been used to account for the loss of human life hours in natural disasters such as the Christchurch Earthquakes (in my hometown). Ooof.. that blind-sided me a bit. Quoting the number of hours lost to that earthquake I couldn't help but think... "uh - some of those were mine?!". As I relocated out of the city, and threw my life upside down a bit, as a direct consequence of that seismic activity, that hit close to home.
This story is underpinned by a lot of personal relationships that grow and change throughout. The setting is queer-norm and there are non-binary, trans- and various sorts of queer characters. The main character is interested in various types of people, but this only adds to her angst as she finds that living a life on the dark side can get risky for her, and riskier for any person she gets close to. As some of the supers are barely human it seems silly that they be limited to cis-het norms anyway. There's some mention of sub-dom play in there too. Cool to have some elder rep in this as well, and an account of elder-care facilities for folk with super-abilities, yet failing physical and cognitive function.
A Feminist narrative is very blatant as Anna is dubbed "the Auditor" (*shudder* SUPERvillainous!) by an abusive guy, and she develops a working relationship with another woman with superpowers who has been a sidekick, so overshadowed that some of her powers have been attributed to her (male) partner. It seems that the hero narrative must be maintained for the public good.. even if she has to do all the heavy lifting.
The double standard seems obvious to the audience.. well.. me. The Auditor is furious that another woman is being sidelined by an oppressive partner, all the while she herself is a support character to Leviathan's main. Even though she's coming up with all his best plans, she still feels like she's not the one running the show. I can only hope that's going to be explored more in the second book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Violence, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Infidelity, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, and Terminal illness
Minor: Animal cruelty
keen's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I love stories about superheroes. I was raised on the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons, watched some Batman the Animated Series, then read some of the comics. I found I had a taste for the darker side of those stories without it going grimdark. The Boys, The Umbrella Academy, Invincible, all are dark superhero stories I love.
So to read reviews comparing this book to the above stories had me hooked. Then, right before reading, I heard there's body horror? This was a book made for me. As written in The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito, "This is my hole! It was made for me!"
I have a lot to gush about, so I'll start with what I wasn't a fan of. My biggest issues with Hench were the chapter sections. There are 8 chapters, each one broken down into sections within. These sections rarely had awkward starts, but when they did, my reading was thrown off. There were two or three timeskips that forced me to reread pages. The first big one actually made me have to check what book I was reading. I would've appreciated some lead-ups before the timeskips. Usually, the lead-up was told after the skip happened, giving some sections a middle-beginning-end format. I also noticed a few times where words felt repeated too close to each other, giving a paragraph or page repetitive prose. Some words showed up across pages that felt important for the reader to take note of, but the ones I spotted were too nearby for technique.
Aside from that, there was one evolving relationship I took differently than the book intended, which is more a fault of my own. My friend who read with me understood where the relationship was going. I had to wait for the book to spell it out before I dropped my headcanon.
Okay, done now! Onto the gushing.
So, I'm black, trans-masc agender, and I use they/he pronouns. This book already had me joyful to see a bisexual protagonist with multiple female and male crushes. Then I met not one, but two reoccurring side characters with they/them pronouns. I was almost teary-eyed. Instead, I smiled so hard my face hurt. Every reminder makes me smile again. I don't know if I've read a published novel set in the modern age with human characters using they/them pronouns. The fact that there are two in one book is groundbreaking to me. Four or five, if you count one-offs in the short story at the end of the book. The point is, they/them pronouns are accepted grammar and identities in the setting.
Then there's racial representation. Not everyone's ethnicity is listed, but you can get hints from their names or descriptions. Anna's—the protagonist—best friend is a dark-skinned woman named June. One minor character has the last name Ng, and a reoccurring character is described as being Maori with tattoos.
This book gave me what I wanted from a story with representation. This is a book where ethnicity and sexuality aren't used to make a point about society. There are no drawn-out conversations talking about the horror of biphobia or how to use they/them pronouns. A character's transition to female is treated with respect, no one questions Anna for having a crush on a hot muscular woman, these are simply facts of life. The only bigotry is some minor misogyny, which characters turn on its head to empower themselves with.
Related to the above, Anna also suffers physical trauma early on that isn't treated as an end to her life. It's an impediment that would be better if she didn't suffer it at all, but over time, as her body heals and she receives support from her friends, she's able to see that all isn't bad. The same goes for her mental health and PTSD. There were a couple of times she had panic attacks that she controlled with breathing techniques, even citing the term CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). That too is shown as a hardship capable of being managed. Her trauma never goes away, but it doesn't rule her either. It's a breath of fresh air to read a story about a mentally ill and physically disabled character who isn't seen as a burden or as an inspirational story. She has her problems and she makes the best of them.
There isn't much more for me to say on this book. I loved it. I loved the characters, I loved the balance of tragedy with modern humor (good for Millennials and the older Gen Z crowd).
When the true body horror kicked in, the book had me gripped and I made no attempt to escape. I loved it even more. I clearly haven't read enough horror books if this is the best body horror I've read. With that in mind, if you hate that stuff, don't touch the book. Physical trauma is littered throughout and it only gets worse. I didn't think it could, but it did. This was stuff taken out of Lovecraftian horror.
Natalie Walschots stated within an interview on Los Angeles Public Library that a sequel is in the works. Hench ended well as a one-off, but there is plenty of room to expand on the world. Which, isn't that the joy of comic book universes? They're infinitely expansive. Hench introduces superhero teams with unique dynamics, villains of varying morality, and a government with systems for superpowered people. Walschots has plenty to work with, whether she follows the main character, changes perspectives, or creates a whole new story set in the world of Hench. It wouldn't be the first time, because there's a short story from the perspective of another character within the book. If a sequel never comes, there is plenty for fanfiction writers to pick up on, and I suspect that something she would enjoy seeing.
So to read reviews comparing this book to the above stories had me hooked. Then, right before reading, I heard there's body horror? This was a book made for me. As written in The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito, "This is my hole! It was made for me!"
I have a lot to gush about, so I'll start with what I wasn't a fan of. My biggest issues with Hench were the chapter sections. There are 8 chapters, each one broken down into sections within. These sections rarely had awkward starts, but when they did, my reading was thrown off. There were two or three timeskips that forced me to reread pages. The first big one actually made me have to check what book I was reading. I would've appreciated some lead-ups before the timeskips. Usually, the lead-up was told after the skip happened, giving some sections a middle-beginning-end format. I also noticed a few times where words felt repeated too close to each other, giving a paragraph or page repetitive prose. Some words showed up across pages that felt important for the reader to take note of, but the ones I spotted were too nearby for technique.
Aside from that, there was one evolving relationship I took differently than the book intended, which is more a fault of my own. My friend who read with me understood where the relationship was going. I had to wait for the book to spell it out before I dropped my headcanon.
Okay, done now! Onto the gushing.
So, I'm black, trans-masc agender, and I use they/he pronouns. This book already had me joyful to see a bisexual protagonist with multiple female and male crushes. Then I met not one, but two reoccurring side characters with they/them pronouns. I was almost teary-eyed. Instead, I smiled so hard my face hurt. Every reminder makes me smile again. I don't know if I've read a published novel set in the modern age with human characters using they/them pronouns. The fact that there are two in one book is groundbreaking to me. Four or five, if you count one-offs in the short story at the end of the book. The point is, they/them pronouns are accepted grammar and identities in the setting.
Then there's racial representation. Not everyone's ethnicity is listed, but you can get hints from their names or descriptions. Anna's—the protagonist—best friend is a dark-skinned woman named June. One minor character has the last name Ng, and a reoccurring character is described as being Maori with tattoos.
This book gave me what I wanted from a story with representation. This is a book where ethnicity and sexuality aren't used to make a point about society. There are no drawn-out conversations talking about the horror of biphobia or how to use they/them pronouns. A character's transition to female is treated with respect, no one questions Anna for having a crush on a hot muscular woman, these are simply facts of life. The only bigotry is some minor misogyny, which characters turn on its head to empower themselves with.
Related to the above, Anna also suffers physical trauma early on that isn't treated as an end to her life. It's an impediment that would be better if she didn't suffer it at all, but over time, as her body heals and she receives support from her friends, she's able to see that all isn't bad. The same goes for her mental health and PTSD. There were a couple of times she had panic attacks that she controlled with breathing techniques, even citing the term CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). That too is shown as a hardship capable of being managed. Her trauma never goes away, but it doesn't rule her either. It's a breath of fresh air to read a story about a mentally ill and physically disabled character who isn't seen as a burden or as an inspirational story. She has her problems and she makes the best of them.
There isn't much more for me to say on this book. I loved it. I loved the characters, I loved the balance of tragedy with modern humor (good for Millennials and the older Gen Z crowd).
When the true body horror kicked in, the book had me gripped and I made no attempt to escape. I loved it even more. I clearly haven't read enough horror books if this is the best body horror I've read. With that in mind, if you hate that stuff, don't touch the book. Physical trauma is littered throughout and it only gets worse. I didn't think it could, but it did. This was stuff taken out of Lovecraftian horror.
Natalie Walschots stated within an interview on Los Angeles Public Library that a sequel is in the works. Hench ended well as a one-off, but there is plenty of room to expand on the world. Which, isn't that the joy of comic book universes? They're infinitely expansive. Hench introduces superhero teams with unique dynamics, villains of varying morality, and a government with systems for superpowered people. Walschots has plenty to work with, whether she follows the main character, changes perspectives, or creates a whole new story set in the world of Hench. It wouldn't be the first time, because there's a short story from the perspective of another character within the book. If a sequel never comes, there is plenty for fanfiction writers to pick up on, and I suspect that something she would enjoy seeing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Death, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Excrement, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Self harm, Stalking, and Vomit
madarauchiha's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-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? It's complicated
4.25
❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️
Oh wow. Ok. So I liked the balance between realism and the grimdark gore. I don't read too much about superheroes--I prefer villain characters in the ol' super hero 'genre'--but I did like this plot a lot. I liked the brutality. It didn't feel like it veered into edgy grimdark goofiness, as superhero plots tend to. The destruction superheroes create tends to be skipped over in most media. "Oh Superdude saved Freedom City!* [*billions of infrastructure damage and lives lost not mentioned.]"
It felt like it gave credence to the plot wherein the MC tries to fight back with her limited, mundane skill set. I thought it was refreshing to see a ordinary human try to take on superheroes without making themself superpowered or going full cheesy embarrassing knock off anime.
I'd agree that some parts of the plot were ignored. Such as the MC going after multiple superheroes using her data analytics. I can accept that, as I'd rather have the book focused on one issue at a time rather than juggle multiple plotlines and fail at that. Who cares if the MC goes after several small time schmucks when it's the big name superhero that is the problem?
The romance was... a lil weird. Not entirely unfounded. The power imbalance did creep me out, as did thehand on the throat scene at the end. The love interest did seem a bit childish, but that's probably due to incredibly stunted growth as a person due to childhood trauma / torture, and having very little chance for mundane human relationships [platonic and otherwise] . FWIW if you're not into romance, it's not featured heavily until, perhaps, the last few chapters. And even then it's not too much.
I'm not sure about how diverse this book is. Are the characters of color? Yes. Are they developed and deployed tactfully? Not really. Like the one asian character is mentioned, we had a Hindu character whowas used as a honeypot to manipulate a white character into death . There's also an Aotearoan woman, who also gets a pretty shitty plotline. Which I can kinda forgive because it makes some sense in how she is exploited by the white secret organization for her powers, her 'token brownness' of diversity, etc etc. Not unlike how this happens to use in real life. She does get a decent ending but she's also a piece of shit. She's a complicated lady, and I hope she gets... Not redeemed. A peaceful conclusion. Assuming there's a sequel.
I'd like to see a sequel to this. Either where it left off, or where Anna is now in some timeskip past this book.
content warnings:
minor ableist c slur,
medium emetophobia / vomit, alcohol use, misogyny, body horror, marital infidelity,
major kidnapping, child abuse, gore, murder, leg trauma, medical content, misogyny, sexual harassment, toxic relationships, domestic violence, medical abuse, child abuse, medical abuse, confinement, unsanitary, prison abuse, kidnapping, torture, stalking, toxic relationships, child abuse, kidnapping, smoking tobacco,
Oh wow. Ok. So I liked the balance between realism and the grimdark gore. I don't read too much about superheroes--I prefer villain characters in the ol' super hero 'genre'--but I did like this plot a lot. I liked the brutality. It didn't feel like it veered into edgy grimdark goofiness, as superhero plots tend to. The destruction superheroes create tends to be skipped over in most media. "Oh Superdude saved Freedom City!* [*billions of infrastructure damage and lives lost not mentioned.]"
It felt like it gave credence to the plot wherein the MC tries to fight back with her limited, mundane skill set. I thought it was refreshing to see a ordinary human try to take on superheroes without making themself superpowered or going full cheesy embarrassing knock off anime.
I'd agree that some parts of the plot were ignored. Such as the MC
The romance was... a lil weird. Not entirely unfounded. The power imbalance did creep me out, as did the
I'm not sure about how diverse this book is. Are the characters of color? Yes. Are they developed and deployed tactfully? Not really. Like the one asian character is mentioned, we had a Hindu character who
I'd like to see a sequel to this. Either where it left off, or where Anna is now in some timeskip past this book.
content warnings:
minor ableist c slur,
medium emetophobia / vomit, alcohol use, misogyny, body horror, marital infidelity,
major kidnapping, child abuse, gore, murder, leg trauma, medical content, misogyny, sexual harassment, toxic relationships, domestic violence, medical abuse, child abuse, medical abuse, confinement, unsanitary, prison abuse, kidnapping, torture, stalking, toxic relationships, child abuse, kidnapping, smoking tobacco,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Stalking, Torture, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, Misogyny, Body horror, and Infidelity
Minor: Ableism
awpatton's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Stalking, Torture, and Vomit
iviarelle's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
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
4.75
If you ever watched a superhero movie and asked yourself, "what kind of society would uphold all this accidental damage as acceptable", this may be a book for you! There's a lot of difficult content here (I'm glad I have aphantasia because some of those sequences have intense descriptions of injuries and worse) but this is such a great examination of hero culture and who it really benefits. No villain-focused story I've read before has ever really gone this far to say, hey though, nobody deserves the damage these heroes inflict. Which is true! A lot of "heroes" inflict a hell of a lot of collateral damage in their attempts to save the target they latch on to, even in the real world, and it's kinda hecked up.
At any rate, I really, really enjoyed this one. If you aren't a fan of open endings, this may annoy you more than satisfy, but if you don't mind or enjoy some loose threads, and anything about the above paragraph intrigues you, it's worth a shot.
At any rate, I really, really enjoyed this one. If you aren't a fan of open endings, this may annoy you more than satisfy, but if you don't mind or enjoy some loose threads, and anything about the above paragraph intrigues you, it's worth a shot.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, and Stalking
Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Torture, and Toxic relationship
qwerty88's review
dark
emotional
funny
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
If you didn't like the Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey movie, you probably won't like this
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Child abuse
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