Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

71 reviews

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Body shaming, Torture, Colonisation, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Gore, Physical abuse, Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Medical content, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Hate crime, Violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, War, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Blood, Genocide, and Vomit

skyfluff's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, Ableism, Body shaming, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, War, Body horror, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, and Gore

orakuruno's review

adventurous dark funny inspiring mysterious tense 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

4.75

DRAGONS I LOVE DRAGONS 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Misogyny, Death of parent, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Body horror, Classism, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death

emilycfox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wowowowow hunger games x divergent x game of thrones + steamy slow burn romance
I was laughing, squealing, swooning, gasping, and on the edge of my seat the ENTIRE TIME. The second I finished, I wished I could rewind my life a week to experience reading it for the first time again. The writing isn’t exceptional, but the story more than makes up for that in my opinion. 
It was so special to read a book with a bad-ass disabled character (I have a connective tissue disorder like Violet). And I think her disability makes the story so much more interesting, complex, and relatable than all the other dystopian-type novels with women main characters who are physically strong and clearly capable from the start. 
Also, the romantic plot line is WOW. I wasn’t expecting it to get so sexually explicit, but I’m def not mad about it lol — just a heads up in case you aren’t into that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Cursing, Death of parent, and Medical content

imds's review

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Kidnapping, War, Xenophobia, Murder, Violence, Death, Grief, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Gore

brimacca's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Body horror, Medical content, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Classism, Cursing, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Murder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Violence, War, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

devincold's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

This book reads like a fantasy-flavored reimagining of Divergent. It's a fun read that feels predictable throughout. If you're looking for a romance novel and you like a fantasy setting, this might be a good option. If you're looking for enemies to lovers and LGBTQI+ representation - I would look elsewhere.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Stalking, Torture, War, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Blood, Child death, and Chronic illness

megan_wy's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense 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

This was my first time reading a fantasy genre book since my teen years. This story about strength, love, friendship, and complex family relationships was great! Violet is a character that embodies female confidence and independence. With everyone rooting against her, she strives even harder to continue on and outwit everyone with her knowledge. I took off a star because it was hard for me to keep track of the many many characters and confusing aspects of this book. I was constantly needing to google random words: signet, parapet, venin, wyvern, citadel, dais, etc etc. I know this is a whole other world that Yarros created, but it got really hard to follow at times. I also LOVE Andarna 🥹 she was the cutest little added element of the story that I needed. And I must say, I usually hate awkward love stories / enemies to lovers cringey tropes, BUT not Xaden and Violet. Their chemistry was amazing and I was literally giggling smiling and kicking my feet whenever they kissed or hooked up 🤭🤭🤭 The cliffhanger has me READY to read Iron Flame!!!! Overall, 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a good book for readers wanting to dabble into fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

nickileal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

It was so hard to get into this book and took me a whole month to finish. Violet isn’t really the most loveable character. Also I was very tired of hearing how small and fragile she was repeatedly throughout the book. Riorson really saves this book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Body horror, Child death, and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous challenging lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Sexual content