Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

11 reviews

miss_snek's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Sexual content

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Animal death, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Classism

beeeenerys's review

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

A gay couple frankenstein themselves a daughter with dead bodies and mushrooms.

This is absolutely going in my favourites tag. Botany, fungus, some tasteful gore and a healthy helping of queerness. I loved how she was put together with all sorts of things and her constant growth and fluctuation made her kind of difficult to imagine, I really enjoy a certain level of nebulousness to my monsters.

It was gross at times but not scary at at all, I think this book will make a great entry point for someone starting out in queer horror, who wants to dip their toes in but isn't sure what they can handle just yet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Body horror

Minor: Sexual content and Homophobia

ilaxaria's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Grief, Confinement, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide and Blood

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

txikimandy's review

dark lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

A Botanical Daughter is an incredible debut. The prose is lofty like a classic but not difficult; it lends itself to stunning descriptions and wordplay. The twists and turns didn’t fail to surprise me.

The characters are multi-faceted and sympathetic, even as they do highly questionable (at best) things. It’s as if Seymour Krelborn became Dr. Frankenstein.

I adored this book and I highly recommend it. It’s a stunning blend of fantasy and horror, but not dark enough that I couldn’t read it at night.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Lesbophobia, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Alcohol, and Fire/Fire injury

renorsomethin's review

dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Death of parent, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Infidelity, Gore, and Homophobia

Minor: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

augusto_aaa's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Please read this. Oh my GOD, that ending. 😭 Every character is such a lovable asshole and each one goes through a complete and satisfying character arc. Great gothic horror. Some truly unsettling stuff goes down in this story. Awesome setting! Would highly recommend to all plant nerds, and fans of taxidermy! I wish I could write a more coherent review right now but I’m just going through so many emotions because OH MY GOD THAT ENDING!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Sexual content

_serena_'s review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

Mexican Gothic meets Frankenstein meets What Moves the Dead. 

This queer, gothic horror surprised me! I loved how methodical the beginning was, the botanical process and explanations. 

Simon and Gregor’s relationship with their creation develops nonstop throughout the story. 

I loved how much Jenny grew as their housekeeper and new found family member. 

I’m still kind of reeling over the plant sex though. I knew it was coming from the content warnings, but I was still a little taken aback. It was beautifully written though like the rest of the story.

The majority of the story is a slow paced process. I didn’t expect the fast paced ending, but I think it all wrapped up very nicely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Death, and Homophobia

bebidocrimes's review

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

A bit softer than I was expecting but such a delightful read! Medlock entrances with his environments, this greenhouse sounds like another world, so luscious and enticing. I feel like a few things tied up a bit too nicely and the looming consequences to their choices didn't feel like they held much weight.

Salting the earth just being assumed to stop the spread and not seeing anything to contradict that felt like a missed opportunity, and the murders don't seem like they mattered to the community at large so the secret was easily kept.

I wish we'd gotten to see a bit more of Chloe and Jennifer's relationships' early development, but the entanglement in the end was fascinating! Maybe I was looking for a more ambiguous/ominous ending, but overall it was so fun and I'm glad I grabbed it on release day! I never say I *want* a movie adaptation, but please give this to Guillermo del Toro.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Murder, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical content, and Body horror

Minor: Suicide and Animal death

wynwicket's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content and Murder