Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

65 reviews

robotfanclub's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Cursing, Child death, Body horror, Blood, War, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Antisemitism, Vomit, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

hconnellyal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Body horror

Moderate: Rape, War, and Sexual assault

pie_rogue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, and Death

hamstringy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

Unexpectedly really emotionally resonant! Pitched via Twitter as medieval Black Plague horror, and it’s definitely horror but a much quieter and disturbing horror rather than a nonstop onslaught of Big Events. Also somehow still very vulnerable and three-dimensional when approaching characters who have lived some contradictory and not-so-great choices. 

It’s also a particularly humanizing portrayal of a pandemic & a deeply religious response to that pandemic. It’s interesting to me that a lot of the attitudes around *somehow still living during horrible times* match very closely with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal death, Gore, Torture, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Infidelity, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Grief, and Xenophobia

marinableu's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Violence, Sexual content, Body horror, Death, Antisemitism, and Sexual violence

tropicwitchgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, and Child abuse

emilyplun's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Torture, Animal death, Antisemitism, and Pedophilia

akil_ss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Rape

matt4hire's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A sometime knight meets a strange young girl during the Black Plague in France, and ends up getting pulled along on a strange quest.

Do you like religious horror? Do you like post-apocalyptic horror? Do you like dark fantasy? Do you like really well-written, flawed characters trying to do their best in life? This is a book you should read.

Buehlman’s writing is pretty aces. His characters are interesting, his senses of action and pacing are top-notch.

The one thing to know, if you do pick this up, is that this book is actually scary, and fairly gruesome, too. It’s not exactly splatter stuff, but there’s quite a bit of violence.

Still, definitely recommend if you’re into that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Cursing, and Gore

deems22's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Sexual content

Moderate: Antisemitism, Body horror, and Sexual assault