Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

25 reviews

tiernanhunter's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Misogyny, Body horror, Pregnancy, Classism, Death, Abortion, Sexism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Slavery

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Violence, and Medical content

ellenigrace's review

3.5

I much preferred the first book. This one wasn't nearly as gothic, though I did enjoy the 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Confinement, Gun violence, Medical content, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content, Abortion, Chronic illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

streberkatze's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

This sequel to Anatomy was just as gripping as the first part. The plot was really well developed, and unexpected turns happened just at the right moments. This element of surprise was among the things I enjoyed most about this book. Overall, the story and the relationships between the characters were a bit more complex than in the first book, which was a nice change of pace.

Bonus points for the semi-open ending and the intentionally ahistorical experimenting with real historical figures. As a historian, I often find the lack of courage to approach history in anything but didactic ways in fiction writing disappointing. Not an issue for this author!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore and Pregnancy

binreads's review

dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

What an enjoyable sequel. I loved the addition of real life aspects being intertwined with this work of fiction. I don't think I enjoyed it more than the first though, the beginning was pretty slow. It wasn't until chapter 21 when things really started picking up tbh.

I really enjoyed the slight love triangle aspect between Hazel and her two suitors. Simon was a lovely lovely addition, I liked how he treated Hazel with such respect. So was Princess Charlotte and Eliza. Ugh, love them. Honestly, all the characters added to this book were great.

I guess I'm with everyone else when they say they were disappointed Jack didn't show up sooner. We didn't get to experience much of their romance in the first and I feel like the same happened in this one. He doesn't show up until page 238, more than halfway through the book, so it's a big bummer that we don't get more of him. Him and Hazel's connection is so sweet, and especially since it's called 'A Love Story', you would think he's be in it more.

The Companions to the Death were annoying anyways, freaking immortal weirdos trying to play God. Jack/Hazel did the right thing.

CHARLOTTE AND ELIZA MY GIRLS FOREVER I WISH THEM NOTHING BUT THE BEST I LOVE THEM SO MUCH MAKE A SPIN OFF BOOK FOR THEM PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Classism, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Body horror

rheagoveas's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

itsalina's review

adventurous dark medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Blood, Body horror, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Gun violence, Medical content, Death, and Gore

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Misogyny

mademoisellemonalisa's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Sexism, and Body horror

celestialg's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Perfectly good and fun story. Not as captivating as the first one somehow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Pregnancy