Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

32 reviews

catapocalypse's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark hopeful 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: Complicated

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 A solid and creepy adventure of a read. Although dealing with high stakes and dark things both real and supernatural, there's a lot of heart and even hope. The book also plants a seed of interest and learning about a hard period of the Bronx's history, as well as the good being done there now.

My only nitpicks are that it felt like aspects of the plot could have been more tidy. And I'm not totally sold on how the budding romance was delivered during such intense events (though perhaps building on it more in the beginning would have helped?). Bonus points for it being Sapphic though, I hadn't realized that going in!

Overall, I think teens who read horror would enjoy this a lot, and I certainly had a good time as an adult reader! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Police brutality, Cannibalism

solenekeleroux's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark informative 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Police brutality, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

anniereads221's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

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The creepiness is real, oh my goodness i should not have started reading it at night and then had to finish to hope it was not as scary by the end. But woah yeah Horror anyone?

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

megj23's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Medical content, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality

georgia7's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Racism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gun violence, Grief, Cannibalism

trashboatwinter's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality, Cannibalism, Stalking

Minor: Cursing

danileah07's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Racism

motaki's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Police brutality

melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

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: Complicated

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Thank you to Netgalley and Tantor Audio for an ALC of this book.

Raquel is thrown into a mysterious and supernatural situation when her crush's cousin goes missing and attacks her mom, hospitalizing her with an unknown illness connected to the string of disappearances. Raquel has to team up with Charlize to investigate the urban legend, Echo Game, learn about the past history of the Bronx, and save everyone.

This was catchy and fast-paced. First of all, that cover is gorgeous. I really liked the narration by Julienne Irons and I overall enjoyed the plot of the book a lot. There were some parts that I thought maybe dragged on a bit for the pacing of the rest of the book. I like the themes and lessons that went along with this and also felt like I learned something.  The Echo Game aspect was really interesting and I was so intrigued about it until we knew more.  Good book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Racism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Gore

Minor: Vomit, Police brutality, Cannibalism

criticalbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder