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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Outing, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cannibalism
I didn't get that far, I just hated the way the older woman was written so so much it turned me off the entire book. I don't even know if she's in the rest of it, but the over the top cruelty just made the whole book feel edgy in a juvenile way
Okay, the first thing I need to say is that I already feel the need to read this book again. It was so packed with great and joyously complex characters and superb interwoven stories that I honestly feel like I've missed bits. Viscera is just as gritty and gory as its title suggests, and more so as it weaves in Gothic and gory horror with truly visceral human issues that pull on the heart strings...right before tearing them out. Not to mention some seriously dark and witty humour just for good measure. To be honest the only reason this isn't a full 5 stars is because there is so much going on that even now I haven't been able to process it all and I feel as a reader I can't take it in all at once, I'm willing to bet that on my second reading (which will happen) this will be jumped up to the full 5.
4.5 stars?? This was bananas. What an imaginative author. I was like, am I really reading this book and taking a living, talking doll seriously?? Loved the creativity of this story and our two lead characters. This was more of a personal journey for each of them within a fantasy setting. The setting is actually difficult to get a handle on. Whatever war is going on is completely beside the point. Unlike most fantasy stories, the characters we follow are not the decision makers of this war, not involved in this war, not the ones who will end this war. I think sometimes a vagueness to a fantasy setting works really well because if you try to explain too much it can actually start to make less sense.
I think the plot of this book was a bit unfocused. Everything comes to a satisfying conclusion for me, but the way there felt random. Having said that, it didn’t bother me much??
I think the plot of this book was a bit unfocused. Everything comes to a satisfying conclusion for me, but the way there felt random. Having said that, it didn’t bother me much??
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
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:
Yes
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's a very unique book. Definitely not for everyone.
TW gore, trans violence
TW gore, trans violence
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Blood, War
This was...a strange one. Not in that the story was too strange, as I love strange stories. It's that it had so much of what I should have really enjoyed in it, but I just didn't.
I saw another review that summed it up well, that there was no room to breathe. It's too short and too fast, so reveals don't feel earned, and there's too many concepts floating about that feel little explored. It's a VERY interesting world, and I wanted more of it.
I also get very *ick* about fantasy stories where trans characters are just suffering. I get that it's a dystopia, but it's high fantasy. Must we suffer persecution in every universe? I find no catharsis in it.
I saw another review that summed it up well, that there was no room to breathe. It's too short and too fast, so reveals don't feel earned, and there's too many concepts floating about that feel little explored. It's a VERY interesting world, and I wanted more of it.
I also get very *ick* about fantasy stories where trans characters are just suffering. I get that it's a dystopia, but it's high fantasy. Must we suffer persecution in every universe? I find no catharsis in it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Deadnaming, Transphobia
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My main problem with this book is that it just didn't have enough room to breathe. There is so much potential here - just from the taste of the world that we got, I can tell that this would be a fascinating universe, but the book doesn't even hit 300 pages, and there's not enough room to explore all of it. Big reveals are done too quickly and certain threads really get away from you when they are given so little time. If this had been a trilogy and had been given the room it needed to breathe I think this could easily have been a 5 star read for me, which is a frustrating feeling.
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes