Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

242 reviews

njauf's review

4.75

Really good. Definitely took me by surprise with how violent the imagery and language was, but I should have expected it. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I read it. I definitely think I’ll return for a reread

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Transphobia, and Antisemitism

bearbookshelf's review

challenging dark reflective tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

lemonyanne's review

challenging dark reflective tense fast-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

4.5

Surface level, this is a haunted house book. But it is soooo much more than that. It’s a dark and gruesome, slaps-you-across-the-face kind of book that forces you to look inwards and at the state of the world around you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

cass_lit's review against another edition

2.25

This wasn’t for me. I didn’t like the language (tons of trigger warnings here for hate speech, vile language, sexual language, etc etc), I didn’t get the metaphor (fascism, racism, transphobia, antisemitism are bad yes but what did they have to do with the haunted house), I didn’t like the characters (both of them need therapy and god are there literally ONLY unhealthy relationships in this), I don’t know why we had to be so racist/ transphobic/ antisemitic/ etc to prove a point, and I don’t understand the house plot. I still don’t know why the house is haunted. I know why Alice and Ila have trauma but I don’t know what I’m supposed to take from it — that sometimes rape accusations are all in your head? That can’t be right. 

Maybe there was a point to this book and maybe it will mean something to someone, help them feel seen. Not me, but I wasn’t the target audience, so…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

orizenda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This is a difficult book to review, I think. Parts were scary, horrifying, etc, in different ways, but then other parts felt very long-winded to me. Which like, the book starts off telling you it’s about fascism so it’s not super surprising that the author has opinions, it’s just hard to tell what is the characters and what is the author. Because I feel like all of it wasn’t just a novel. idk. It felt like a manifesto sometimes or something. Which is fine, but it’s somewhat jarring in a haunted house story.. also, I don’t know if it was just because I listened to the audiobook but the harsh language really got to me. like I hate the word cunt sorry can’t we just say vagina like hello idk. anyway, I gave it 4 stars so I obviously liked it overall

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt

There’s a content warning at the beginning of the book

valkyriecain82's review

challenging 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

sssaff's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Have never read a book like this before and loves reading this. I am very interested in haunted houses, the way that fascism is horror-fied in this book. Feel like a voice is given to the darkest parts of the characters, the reader, the land and houses in England. It’s definitely a horror, which is genuinely scary to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Toxic friendship

birb_boi's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Dysphoria

rosefaure's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

the most deeply visceral and disturbing book i have ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

theromanticace's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia