Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

8 reviews

lauraloveslemons's review

dark funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cursing, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Animal death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Vomit

lauradoesnothing's review against another edition

dark funny 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? Yes

4.0

If you enjoy laughing at bad books but feel guilty, this is perfect. Or if you're a Garth Merenghi fan already, obviously. 

The Horrortica section challenged my whole worldview.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Sexism and Misogyny

unusablebooklore's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny medium-paced

4.0

This book was excellent. All three Tomes are spectacular and the first was FAR more erotic than I had anticipated. A pleasant surprise as I read almost exclusively romance.

Genuinely hilarious. Enjoyed it so much I bought the sequel and went to an in person reading. I've been a massive Garth Marenghi (Matthew Holness) fan for ages and was thrilled to get my hands on one of his books.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

gruhuken's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? Yes

4.0

Darkplace is my favourite TV show ever made so I had to get this, in audiobook, narrated by the man himself. I feel that really enhanced the experience - Holness is unironically a good narrator, even when doing The Voice, and he has great comedic delivery. And it definitely helped that he's capable of writing incredibly good horror when he isn't trying to be bad (Possum). 

The first story in particular made me laugh a lot, and he did a good job of capturing a lot of what made the show so good. This kind of ridiculous, intentionally bad writing is best consumed in doses rather than binged though, which I'll take in mind when I listen to the sequel because after I while I started to feel like I was going insane.

Good stuff. Love this guy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Gore, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Toxic friendship

All things warned about are written in an intentionally overly-exaggerated comedic fashion

traa's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

leahisdudish's review

3.0

basically dark place in book form

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Sexism, and Sexual violence

gogglor's review

funny slow-paced

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

4.0

God bless Garth Marenghi and his misogynist horror bullshit. 4 stars partly because of some personal taste stuff (body horror is rough for me) and partly because there were sections that dragged, even if the dragging was often intentional. But by God, where else can you find Marty Stu’s engaging in BDSM with a cursed typewriter? Listen to the audiobook if you can, it definitely adds to the experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Misogyny

All misogyny in this book is 1000% intentional and meant to make the Garth Marenghi persona look like an ass, which it does wonderfully.

cloroxcrew's review

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Death, and Fire/Fire injury