Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

36 reviews

becca_w_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Excrement, Abortion

gracecrandall's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-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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The best book in the trilogy. It was funny and loving but still had a bit of a thrill that left me on the edge of my seat. I love the characters I absolutely love cardan. These 3 books were the most easy reads I have read in a long time and I'm definitely going to read more of holly blacks books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse

joensign's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Abandonment, War

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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: Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Classism

Minor: Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Abandonment

m_a_r_i_a_m's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, Murder

onefineelephant's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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8/10. I liked this book the best out of the trilogy. It had the most romance, Jude finally had people she could trust and lean on, and the trajectory of the plot also made sense. Additionally, I will say that there were a few times that I was genuinely surprised which does not happen very often to me. I don't wholly love the romance between Jude and Cardan but I like it well enough. This isn't a stand-out series to me and I don't know if I will read it again considering I did not like the first book very much but I like it well enough to keep the books on my shelf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Cannibalism, Abortion, Pregnancy, Alcohol

thedevouringbookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence

filipa_maia's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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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This was the perfect ending to the perfect story.

When I first start reading The Cruel Prince I was not expecting to fall in love so dearly for this story. But everything about it made me keep reading it: the world creation is amazing, the intricacy of the story line, the political wars, the love, the fear, the hate... I was seriously committed to these characters and what would happen to them.

I'm very glad it ended the way it did. Can't wait to read more books by Holly Black.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, War

Minor: Torture, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol

teagstime's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I cried for like 10 minutes straight at one point near the end.. Had to physically shut the book, calm down a bit, and then continued on all teary-eyed til the end 😅

I was incredibly nervous going into this book, as Wicked King was NOT IT for me. I had so many problems with Jude in that book that kinda ruined it for me a bit.... However !! Maaan this book was just incredible. Jude got her act together & was , honestly?? Kinda badass & competent. I was very impressed! It probably helped that her sisters kinda bullied her a bit for keeping everything to herself!

My favorite thing about this book was the focus on Jude's family drama. Like, Cardan/Jude was still a great part (so many moments in the final third made me terribly weepy), but ! I just love the family issues in this one so much! 

Madoc was always my favorite character, and seeing things with him come to a head was so so exciting!! I loved , too, getting to hear more of him like.. Just talking? His pov on things & his relationship with his family? There was an incredible conversation + heartbreaking scene between him & Jude about halfway through that made me sooo emotional... 💔 I think >half of my post-its in this one were just for Madoc lines. He's SUCH a good, interesting character-- Holly Black where's my Madoc character study novella !! T_T 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, Grief, Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Cannibalism, Abortion, Pregnancy