Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Buenos Presagios: las buenas y ajustadas profecías de Agnes La Chalada by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

22 reviews

astropova's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body horror

phantomgecko's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

Hilarious, I even laughed out loud. Almost every footnote was a good punchline.

Even though I didn't love the plot, I still thoroughly enjoyed the novel. Aside from the humor, the depictions of the four horsemen was great. The idea that someone made inane and specific prophecies that her descendants dedicated their lives to...A++.

idk, I guess over all, this novel introduced a world I'd love to dive deeper into. The escapades of angels and demons, the Devices, Satanists that have nuns...

The only thing I didn't really like was Adam's plotline. Like, yeah, I know, central to the plot. But I do not care even a little bit about what the children were doing at any given time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Death

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

A while after watching the short TV series, I finally read Good Omens, which everyone has been telling me to read for years. It was funny, though a lot of things happened at once. The first half of the book really felt as though I was missing part of the series, like when you accidentally pick up book two in a series, and while it does stand on its own, you miss some important details about the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Body horror, Car accident, Murder, Death, Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Ableism, Body shaming, and War

oxymoron_nonsense's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing sad 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? Yes

5.0

I can’t recommend this book enough. I absolutely love it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Death

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

4.0

I can absolutely see how this book is beloved by so many—it is funny and incisive and clever and it brings up lots of really engaging ideas about philosophy, morality, and religion, while just being straight up entertaining. There are certain things that have not aged well, such as the casual use of "f****t," which didn't sit well with me, and for which I have removed a star. The full cast audiobook production was marvelously well done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

mobymaize's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Torture, Alcohol, Car accident, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, and Slavery

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Violence, and War

skudiklier's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

Hmm. I liked this book more by the last third or so, but still, it took me a while to get into it. There were a lot of dark violent things that deeply bothered me, even though they were usually taken back or didn't happen or whatever. I think I might like the show more. I did like the last few bits a lot though. 

Edit/update: I do like the show more, and that's made me want to bump my review of the book up to 4 stars?? But I'm not going to because that seems silly. But I'd maybe recommend watching the show and then reading the book. A fair amount is different, and maybe it'll make the show harder to understand (?), but I think doing things in that order would have made me enjoy the book more. I like the show and am excited for the second season, but I also don't like it enough to want to reread the book haha.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Eating disorder, Murder, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: War, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Sexual assault, Genocide, and Infidelity

prog51's review against another edition

adventurous funny relaxing fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Body horror

sofipitch's review against another edition

adventurous funny slow-paced

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

4.5

I enjoyed this book but at some parts the book seemed to drag slowly a bit due to the changing perspectives. Some characters, like Shadwell or Newt, I don't think contributed much to the plot except in a few minors points or were very unlikable or bland but still manage to get a fair amount of pages about them. Some of the humor was definitely dated as well.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Homophobia, and Xenophobia