Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

256 reviews

andiewhite's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism

rachelemiller's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

quetzalli101's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I will always think about this book. It was so difficult in the BEST way! I gritted my teeth and beat up my pillow because how emotional it made me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Classism

Minor: Sexual violence, Abortion

sarapriz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sweetteaandfiction's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

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This trilogy completely destroyed me from start to finish. If my heart wasn’t getting ripped out by the death of a beloved character, I was crying/ screaming/ throwing up over the brutality of the war(s). 

Forever Obsessed.

PROS: 
🔥 The whole ass book 2: Electric Bugaloo 
🗡️ World building 
🔥 Characters
🗡️ Politics 
🔥 Intricate battle plots 
🗡️ Found Family 
🔥 The Gods VS the Divine Architect

CONS: 
🗡️ For me? Still none. The heroes are perfectly morally grey. The villains are also (mostly) the perfect shade of morally grey. It makes it debatable who is the true hero and who is the true villain. 
🔥 For some people? The descriptions of what the invading army did to the people are very graphic and very disturbing. It  never gets easier to digest.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 out of five heroes that might be villains but they think they are heroes but they are villains to somebody

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Pregnancy

beau_b_reading's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I sadly don't think any book of the series is ever gonna top the first (Poppy War), but I still enjoyed it enough to want to finish the series. I would recommend reading it in big chunks rather than occasionally, because the story doesn't hit as much that way whoops. Thank you Daniel for lending this copy to me :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Cannibalism, Acephobia/Arophobia

i_write_on_occasion's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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There are good aspects in this book, but it has a tendency to drag on with needless details and stuffs itself with filler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Rape, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Abortion

livvygirl's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War

Moderate: Abortion

the_friendly_ghost's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging 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

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I really like this book, It's been well over 2 years since I first read it and I didn't realise how much I'd truely forgotten. 

Very enjoyable read, still hurts as much as the first time, better than the first one.

Fuck you, Nezha. I can't remember whether she kills Viasra but I really hope she does

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Deportation

lottiegasp's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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An enjoyable book but it feels extremely long. It is very much focussed on the minutia of war and battle. The protagonist is a very flawed character and the decision she comes to at the end makes one wonder what was the point of it all lol. I'll probably read the third in the trilogy at some point, but for now I'm looking forward to something shorter 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War