Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

36 reviews

dazzlingreader_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

GREAT, GORY, ABSOLUTLY AMAZING!! Great book, the story embraces you and makes everything so real to the point you can feel and see all the things that are being described in the most realistic way. 
Its the type of book you read and think "This should be turned into a movie ASAP"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry

jessgordon_'s review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Police brutality, and Body horror

priscillarobock's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Police brutality, Child death, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, and Death of parent

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Child abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Cursing, Murder, Bullying, Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, Animal death, Body horror, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Vomit

hudsononaux's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad 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: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Racism, Hate crime, Violence, Confinement, Body horror, Grief, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Police brutality and Racial slurs

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

5.0

From the cover, it was easy to see this would be a retelling of Stephen King’s Carrie. I loved it. I loved the story but didn’t care for the way the story was told through interviews. Really great way to study race. Another book I would like to teach to high school students. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure Texas has banned good book in the schools. Grrr…for that reason alone, I’m upgrading this to a five.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Suicide, Bullying, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, and Violence

thenyamartin's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book, along with a few other books by Tiffany Jackson, have been on my TBR for a while and I'm so glad I finally got to it. What a masterful re-telling of Stephen King's Carrie! Tiffany Jackson did an amazing job of creating such nuanced characters, whether you were rooting for or against them, you still felt something for them. 10/10 highly recommend, and I'm definitely gonna get into more of her books!

My only grievance is that the only thing Jules lost was her arm. Girly should've lost her life, I'm just saying! I also would've loved a final chapter or epilogue that showed the reader where Maddy was now. But, I could also see how the fact that we don't really drives home the message of her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Bullying, Hate crime, Police brutality, Body horror, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, and Murder

dragonwithapen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Death, Confinement, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Racism, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs and Gun violence

Minor: Abortion

somelitreference's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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

3.25

Great premise, great lead-up to the climax, unsatisfying ending. Would be an excellent book to read for a bookclub.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Racism

gen_wolfhailstorm's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful relaxing sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

The Details:
Narrated by full cast
Unabridged 

A Carrie retelling, with a podcast narration style, focusing on racial identity and segregation. 

It was a nice suprise to have the podcast style as I wasn't expecting that and I've been enjoying the use of this tool or podcasts being a theme in my reads this year (e.g. Sadie).

Reminded me also of Anna dressed in blood as well as Carrie.

This was such a moving and distraught story of a young girl forced to suppress her nature (in multiple ways) under the cruelty of her father and the racist, segregated town she lives in. It felt so dated in the way the views of the white people held on the Black community and demonised them and the themes about equality in this day and age was painful and poignant.

Just when you hope Maddy can catch a break, all hell breaks lose at an awful happening of police brutality and that's when the Carrie retelling really shines. 

This was a fantastic character study and discussion of deep rooted hatred of the 'other' with well done supernatural elements.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Murder, Religious bigotry, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence