Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

13 reviews

kaylamullarkey's review against another edition

2.5

Good world-building, and I liked the characters for the most part; but some things seemed a little problematic, like

Mia’s plastic surgery and the portrayal of the Dweymeri (who were the only people of color in the entire book).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror

mlcutter's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

Solid 5 stars. When Mia Corvere loses her father in an uprising to overthrow the corrupt government, she decides to join the Our Mother of Blessed Murder order of assassins to become a Blade (the best of the best). This book is all about her training and decisions that she has to make to become strong and skilled enough to avenge her father's murder. The descriptions in this novel are amazing and thr characters are incredibly well-formed. It was recommended to me that I read this book as an aspiring fantasy writer and it did not disappoint. Word of warning, even though Mia is 16, this is NOT a YA novel! No surprise, there is death and its graphic, and there is also a love connection and it is somewhat graphic. But I still believe this is essential for anyone who wants to write fantasy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Violence, Gore, Child death, Grief, Blood, Cursing, Sexual content, Death, and Torture

loralyyn's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

I would have given this book 5 stars, but the beginning felt like a really long intro and took awhile to get going imo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Murder, and Sexual content

thereaderkristle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, Animal death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content and Body horror

Minor: Slavery and Addiction

giulianalb99's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Wow, qué libro TAN bueno… no sé qué tipo de droga le ha metido Jay Kristoff a este libro, porque sin duda ha sido una total adicción. No podía parar de leer y mis horas de sueño han sido descontroladas porque necesitaba saber qué pasaba en cada momento… es que he sido incapaz de soltar este libro.
Mia es sin duda uno de los mejores personajes que he leído en toda mi vida y Don Majo es LO MEJOR con sus comentarios sarcásticos y la amistad y cariño que tienen entre ambos🖤 y Tric me ha enamorado perdidamente.
No puedo esperar más a seguir leyendo los siguientes libros, tengo tantas preguntas sin respuesta😭😭 ¡¡¡¡¡necesito saber qué pasa!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Gore, Animal cruelty, and Blood

nik_a's review against another edition

1 ⭐
це було просто жахливо! 

+ єдине, що сподобалось, це ілюстрації українського видання

- просто жахливий переклад! дуже багато граматичних помилок. перекладач наліпила купу маловживаних слів, навіщо?! речення побудовані таким чином, що важко читати
- автор смакує моменти поранень, а все інше описувати для нього немає сенсу. опис битви був зовсім не цікавим. деякі моменти просто випадають з сюжету 
- жарти про місячні. одразу видно, що писав чоловік
- дуже багато недоречного мату. навіщо?! 
- зноски які іноді займали по пів сторінки і відволікали від сюжету. спочатку ідея здалась цікавою, але вийшла якась маячня, яка відволікали від сюжету. про світ нічого не дізнаєшся, лише дратуєшся та гаїш час
- не цікаві герої

а для кого ця книжка? купа мату, "жарти" нижче пояса, смакування "крові", примітивний розвиток сюжету... для юних маньяків?! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Child abuse, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic relationship

maddie2's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Rape

eviemolly's review

dark 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? Yes

2.0

Contains graphic sex scenes between minors; very uncomfortable to read.
Prose was not well-written; felt like reading wattpad (not in a good way)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Classism, and Death of parent

Minor: Forced institutionalization

kittykaz's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Despite what this extraordinarily pretentious narrator keeps telling us, both the plot and the protagonist were almost painfully transparent in its forced gruesomeness. If Kristoff had let the world and his prose speak for itself, I would have loved the gloomy atmosphere of the lurking shadows under the mountains. Now, and especially with the distracting amount of footnotes, this effect got buried under the evidence of his efforts.
Still, the skill was definitely there, and I am happy to give the rest of the series a chance to catch up on the promises that weren't met here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Excrement, Religious bigotry, and Vomit

vespertine_moth's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.25

I enjoyed this very much! I would compare it to Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, but by the end of the first novel you can tell they won't be taking the same path past the first novels in the series. The characters were very well developed with their own personalities, but sometimes they play one-note, however this is only book 1/3! The plot was somewhat predictable but takes some interesting turns you wouldn't otherwise expect! This book opens

with a sex scene, so if that's not for you take it into consideration! I was able to run past it very quickly but I would say that it was somewhat important. Other sex scenes in the novel I wouldn't deem necessary to read in full so they can easily be skipped

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Vomit, Torture, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

One of the races of people in this series has some cultural appropriation of natives, specifically with body/war tattoos. Not specifically mentioned to be modelled after any specific people but it is implied to be referencing darker skinned natives when the author is not himself.