Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

6 reviews

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Torture, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and War

lectricefeministe's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Murder

yrlaevelyn's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, War, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gun violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

wynterwonderland's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

cranedphoenix's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

2.5

So while this book was much faster paced than the first the fact that they kept saying 

she had 3 days when they already established she had two

was annoying (so minus .5 points)
I don't really like most of the characters still so while it is getting interesting I still kinda don't fully like it
I don't own the third and doubt I'll buy it myself but if someone offers me a chance to read it or I find it at a library I might

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, and War

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, and Gun violence

valereads's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Racism, and Racial slurs

Minor: Ableism