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Leech by Hiron Ennes

11 reviews

racl's review against another edition

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

4.25

Very cool, love a hivemind, love a fictional doctor. How about a hivemind that's a doctor? Easy win for me. So far post apocalyptic we're in fantasy territory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Infertility, Alcohol, Confinement, Body horror, Alcoholism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, Suicide, Child death, Rape, Sexual content, and Gore

Minor: Animal death and Domestic abuse

charlatte_lee's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Body horror, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Gore, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Infertility

barf_mobile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, and Domestic abuse

cadence99's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

A twisty turny fever dream like read. Liked this overall, though the ending felt a bit lackluster and not in keeping with the rest of the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Ableism, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Self harm, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Medical content

a1exander's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Medical content, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

apiecalypsejen's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Grief, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, Suicide, Miscarriage, Child death, Animal death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Pregnancy, Murder, and Abandonment

thayerbowen's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

2.5

It’s … confusing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Blood, Death, Gore, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, Genocide, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Infidelity

iamdr_rn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Bullying, Gore, Sexual violence, Child death, Rape, Domestic abuse, and Animal cruelty

enchantressreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

“A corpse, especially a fresh one, is a fine gift for my laboratories.”

I usually prefer to read shorter books, but this is the rare exception that I wish the book was longer. At 336 pages, I felt that there was still so much unexplored that could have been fleshed out. Because of this, I’ve given Leech a moderate 3.5 star rating. Not bad, as I did enjoy the story, but I wanted so much more out of it.

A doctor who is part of the Interprovincial Medical Institute makes the journey to Chateau de Verdira to find out why one of its bodies has died. The doctors of the Institute are connected as part of a hive mind, but it seems this one has gone off on their own. The Institute’s bodies are sexless, nameless humanoids whose only job is to be doctors. When Doc gets to the chateau, however, they find that the doctor, who named himself Stanislas, has a mysterious fungus or pathogen growing in his eyeball. This caused him to take his own life.

There was so much to this novel, that it felt rushed. As soon as you got into one part of the story, it quickly moved to another part. The general plot was very interesting, and we all know I love a good microbe story, but it definitely felt lost. It was reminiscent of the gothic age, and having read What Moves the Dead recently, I had pretty high hopes. This wasn’t my favorite novel, but I still want to recommend it to anyone who loves fungus as much as I do, as well as a nice gothic story.

Thank you to Tordotcom and NetGalley for this advanced review copy. All opinions are my own.

CW for body horror, death, animal death, suicide, human experimentation, domestic violence, blood, graphic birth scene, animal cruelty, emotional abuse, death of a child, disease, and fire

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Domestic abuse

human experimentation, graphic birth scene

ending in the death of the mother