Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

57 reviews

maddie_can_read's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Pretty good but kind of

predictable in the sense that you could feel a twist coming/ that things weren't exactly as they seem.

A bit slow to start

Took me a bit to get used to the main character's Brooklyn accent in the audiobook.

A lot of uncomfortable scenes

like Nina berating Millie, also some like very mild body horror

wish we go a bit more into the psychology of the main antagonist, aside from them having been abused by their mother in the same way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Infertility, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Murder

Minor: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Vomit, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

someone is forced to pull out their hair strand by strand and someone is forced to pull out their teeth

waterbrender's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Mental illness

cxsmiccxtie's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Death, Murder, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Gaslighting, and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse

victoriasutherland's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Body horror, Abandonment, Body shaming, Suicide, Gore, Toxic relationship, Torture, Confinement, Murder, Mental illness, Bullying, Violence, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

tamtaro's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Murder, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Fatphobia, Confinement, Body shaming, and Classism

lauren_honey's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

4.5

I have to admit, this got very dark and pretty scary about halfway through, so just fair warning! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Confinement, and Torture

livireads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Vomit

readfeelandcherish's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body horror, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

omgmkg's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is not really the sort of thing I normally pick up to read, but it was good for its genre. Trying not to be biased because I accidentally had some spoilers and I’m sure I would have had a different experience with the book otherwise. 

Well written and a fast read. Would consider picking up book 2. 

Would have earned at least another .25 stars if it wouldn’t have mentioned how horribly fat (aka size 14 maybe 16, gasp) Nina is every 20 pages. (I know her body changing was part of her story but I got it the first three times).

definitely an “I support women’s wrongs” book and I enjoyed it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, Child abuse, Infertility, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Vomit

mrspeacockwiththecandlestick's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Millie is hired as a made for the Winchester family. Nina Winchester seems warm and kind, the job also seems too good to be true for the young woman out on parole from prison. As Millie moves into the Winchester house and begins her new position, she quickly discovers that her new employer is very hard to work with but the husband is easy on the eyes. 

Whoa…. This book…. Oof!!!! There were so many twists and turns around every corner that I often felt as if I was getting whiplash. McFadden is very talented. I gave this a 3 star rating only because the content at times had me anxious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, Confinement, and Toxic relationship