Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

234 reviews

fiona_farrell's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Torture

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Confinement

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Body horror, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

fmmiller88's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

Superstore meets haunted house. The book is set up like an IKEA catalog and lays out models of furniture along with descriptions. When you start, it feels like a humorous style of horror. Only half way do you realize it stops being humorous. There are some gory bits and a criticism on being the cogs in a retail machine, but if what I want out of a horror novel is to be horrified, it works. I really enjoyed this read, even if some parts made my skin crawl.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Gore, Torture, Violence, and Body horror

seldnic_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

Very fast read and it really sucks you in. Loved it a bunch, especially how dark it got and how there's still so much I want to know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gore, Cursing, Torture, and Body horror

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

This was so boring and wildly lackluster. Kinda wish I DNFed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Excrement and Alcohol

crismcmahon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

It wasn't that funny and it wasn't that scary. 10/10 premise but 5/10 execution. Not a bad book by any means just a bit of a letdown. Love the concept of the physical book, I thought that was really fun.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Death

maddiearthur's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Confinement, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Death, Murder, Body horror, Physical abuse, Slavery, Blood, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

disguisedposer's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Mental illness, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Death, Medical content, Torture, and Violence

justwordsandink's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Suicide attempt, Death, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Body horror, and Gore

ebleb's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Read it very quickly until the last quarter of the book, but that's my fault not the books. Enjoyed the first half of the book much more, fun to read something in a genre I'm not used to!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Torture, and Death