Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

10 reviews

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

The second installment of The Lunar Chronicles was just as action packed and well written as the first in the series, if not more. I love how we were introduced to the new characters and seeing how their storylines intercept with the character storylines from the previous book as well as, how all of them meeting leads to this new thrilling storyline that’s going to happen in Kress (the next book.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Death, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Gun violence, Grief, and Torture

modernhobbitvibes's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

2.25

Nearly stopped reading when the twenty year old flirted with the sixteen year old, but my own inner sixteen year old wanted to know what happened to the wolf-hybrid soldier man, so I stuck it out. Not sure if I'll be finishing this series though. Insert Jupiter Ascending joke here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Death, Medical trauma, War, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Confinement, Medical content, Blood, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

20 year old flirts with 16 year old, mind control,

coerced marriage.

thumbeleia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Blood, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Vomit, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Classism, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

aiplusyou's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Scarlet is my favorite book of the series, I think. The characters are really fun and the take on the "wolf" aspect of Little Red Riding Hood is fresh and fun, I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Death, War, and Gun violence

Moderate: Body horror, Grief, Abandonment, Torture, and Pandemic/Epidemic

k_galloway's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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: Body horror, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Kidnapping

sarahaf712's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Death of parent, Torture, Violence, Death, Gore, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Medical content, Stalking, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia

Minor: Vomit, Alcoholism, and Addiction

maria_pell's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

corvicore's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.75

the whole omegaverse schtick really got on my nerves and the prose isn't all that good so it was a bit of a chore to read through. at least the first book had an interesting premise and strong characterization, while the characters in this installation felt corny and cliche. i did not buy the romance between scarlet and wolf, especially since every few chapters there was another layer to the betrayal onion. at least Thorne is here... whatever, here's hoping that cress is better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Vomit, Violence, Gun violence, Gore, Death of parent, Confinement, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, and Torture

lagiven's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-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

3.75

Scarlet is a fun book in how it twists the tale of Red Riding Hood, and Meyer does a good job at subverting the tale so that even though you know how it ends, you doubt it. There's lots of action which makes this book go by fast, but it's still setting up the main conflict with out much action being done by the characters to address said main conflict. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, War, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Grief, and Torture

malomegh's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, and Gore