Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

12 reviews

theimposter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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: Body horror, Child death, Blood, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Gore, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Rape

redheadsuperpowers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I stick by my description of this series as Twilight for adults, but it's so well written, and I enjoyed this close to the series so much. It tied up all the major plot points, and the minor ones left open are likely to close with the next series set in this universe. (The first of those books is out!) The relationship between the main characters, Diana and Matthew, settles some, easing how annoyed I was with male lead in the second book. The family moments were many, and one scene made me cry. I was disappointed with one major plot point though. It's a spoiler, so I won't share it, but I was like 'wait, what? Why? Who?' and the book did not answer that point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Murder, Stalking, Torture, Body horror, and Forced institutionalization

euphemiajo's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Pregnancy, Blood, Confinement, and Miscarriage

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Rape, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Child death, Deportation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Abandonment, and Chronic illness

parkinmaia's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, and Rape

adearen's review against another edition

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

3.75

The book is generally slow and disjointed until about the last 100 or so pages when the story line finally starts to resolve. The first book was the best in the series and the author honestly lost track of the narrative by trying to flesh out characters and live that while interesting and that I enjoyed in the end led to a rather convoluted storyline through most of books 2 and 3. Finall  resolving only in the final arc of book 3, when Diana is finally allowed to be the awesomely powerful witch the author has been trying to convince us she is since book 1.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Body horror, and Sexual violence

jowould's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Pregnancy, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, and Torture

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

beccaand's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Rape, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child death, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

Minor: Body horror and Sexual content

urlocalsleepparalysisdemon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

This series has been a pain in the ass to read.

Here's the tea. I simply don't care enough about this series to leave a long rant about my issues with it so I'll just say this:

I'm just glad it's over so I can go on to read literally anything else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Torture

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

laura_mcloughlin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

My 2nd time reading this one. I did enjoy it more this time and it is a pretty solid finish to the trilogy.

I would love to see Gallowglass get his own book though

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Rape, Stalking, Sexual violence, Murder, Torture, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Body horror

fridayoddity's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I was kinda disappointed by the conclusion and ending being just what it is after all that build up. But now I’m curious to see how it’ll translate in the TV show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Rape