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Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen

96 reviews

challenging dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot

3.75✨
“There was beauty in it still, the way imperfect things can be beautiful, but it was a beauty of a dark and fading kind.”
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A gothic Victorian horror with an interesting plot and its own take on vampires. The story follows Lucy as she has to make the decision on how far she’ll go for her twin sister Sarah. 

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dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The characters have no redeeming qualities and the dialogue was not believable for a historical fiction. 

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Audiobook: 9 hours, 2 minutes. Actual listen time: unknown, listened on Hoopla at 1.75 speed 

Gothic horror is usually one of my favorite genres, but this one wasn’t doing it for me
        
The story seemed to allude to vampirism both in the first 1/4 of the book and the blurb on both Goodreads and StoryGraph.  It was not that at all. I think it was closer to the anime Parasyte. 
I don’t think I could love anyone enough to love their parasite driven zombie body….
I thought it was cool to have a bog mummy, and also a character named Lucy, even if they were the same character. The historical parallels were pretty cool! 
The fact that Art-ur (Arthur?) know that Lucy had been seduced my Michael and didn’t explain his reasons. Ugh. Men. I think Lucy could have had a very different life if she’d have known. And I think a lot of things wouldn’t have happened. But hey, the lies of men ruining things? Nothing can be more historically accurate.
     

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dark tense fast-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

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dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark emotional mysterious tense
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ohhhh to be a blood thirsty violent beast poorly disguised in human flesh

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

One of the only books where I have physically cringed and had to put it down when we got to the gory bits. It is truly scary, the atmosphere completely chilling, yet the message oddly sweet.

I will say this book is erroneously labeled as a vampire novel, and while it is supernatural - it is not a vampire. 

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dark mysterious tense

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