Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

15 reviews

skoloyian's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Torture, War, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Gun violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

rokinjaguar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Certainly was a book. Listen, I could see what the author was trying to do but this was just ridiculous. Not actively bad but not good at all. The most engaging part was me genuinely scared for my life that

Juliette and the old man were going to kiss

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, Body horror, and Child abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Alcohol

overduck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense

• 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? No

4.0

It felt a little lazy/haphazard to immediately throw the characters directly back into the situation they quite literally just escaped. I also felt the resolution could have resulted in a lot more answered questions. Still, Warner was iconic in this book, and I will shamelessly admit I read it obsessively.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Cursing, Violence, Sexual content, Child abuse, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Torture, and Body horror

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-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

4.25

If you asked me if I liked this book 300 pages in I would have said no. Honestly this book sucked. Boring and gross and depressing. But Mafi manages to once again make a full recovery in the end. I even cried. I hate to say it but the end was so sweet the whole gross Anderson thing seems less offensive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abandonment, Drug use, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Slavery, Death of parent, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gore, War, Medical content, Body horror, Death of parent, Blood, Torture, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

neverlandingonabook's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Blood, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Grief, and Torture

donatio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

This felt like the last hundred pages of a book when there is the final fight, which it was, of course.
It was a good ending to the series but the tension was beginning to wear of before everything ended. Therefor it was nice, but nothing special. 
<spoiler >There were some things I wondered about when I started reading the series which didn't come up anywhere, e. g. what about periods? What about sexual protection and stuff?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Cursing, Gore, Medical content, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

I read this book some weeks ago and can't remember all the tws I wanted to put but one should definitely check the tws in the description of the book.

haleyc00k's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Torture, Violence, and Murder

brooketreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This review makes me so sad. I loved books 1-3 so much.

This book was not all that I hoped it would be. I hate to say that my views on the series have been on the decline since book 4.

For me the main issue was the frustrating character arcs across the series:
- Don’t even get me started on Castle again. Castle deserves justice. 
- I loved Kenji so much before, then Reveal Me drove my opinion of him into the dirt. He felt almost as bad as Adam. And this book did nothing to bring him back up.
- Book one Warner looked liked a total bad guy… but wait we found out he actually wasn’t a bad guy he had only appeared to be a bad guy. But wait, now he’s acting like a bad guy… what?!?? I get he went through some stuff (but he isn’t the only one) and he is upset/furious over their current situation, but damn. He just saved everyone at the end of last book, and now he’s going act nasty to everyone. 😠

- I hated the random when can I pee lines. I remember awhile ago there was this discourse about in books characters never having to use the bathroom. I feel like maybe this book was written during that time, because this kind of thing wasn’t mentioned in the other books.
- I hated the brainwashed Juliette chapters and her continually thinking Anderson is attractive. Like she’s been with two of his sons… could we not. At some point I was getting nervous that they may kiss and I probably would have DNFed. And what was with Anderson wanting to protect Juliette there at the end… bizarre.
- Finally, I hate that Kenji refused to call Juliette her real name (Ella). Anderson stole her memories and her real name. Then, Ella just deciding to go by Juliette at the end. It felt like some BS.

I spent the last half of the book wishing it was over.
*Cries into pillow*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Self harm, Murder, Gun violence, Body horror, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

gothmiku's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Body horror, and War

Minor: Death of parent