Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman

54 reviews

triseke's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Gore, Toxic friendship, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Body horror

Minor: Car accident, Child death, Infidelity, Infertility, and Murder

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I honestly expected more of a horror story featuring ghosts. I ended up with a commentary on drug abuse and addiction. Which wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't expecting something else entirely. I'm usually one with a strong stomach (I have to be as a trauma nurse) but this sickened me so much, it's a miracle I got through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death, Vomit, Gore, and Addiction

Moderate: Cannibalism, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Abortion

rbradley135's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Cannibalism, Gore, and Vomit

bookishraccoon's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Was pleasantly surprised with this book! Read this one for a book club, not knowing what I was getting myself into. Lol BUT FIRST I gotta get all of this off my chest …  

Due to the 1st 1/3 of the book being extremely slow, I had to knock off a star unfortunately. It took a long time just to really get into the plot, and the author really drew out the teenage love drama (which I could’ve done without personally). There was a lot of ‘filler’ content that the story really didn’t need in that section. I’ll be honest too-  I wasn’t a huge fan of the characters presented in the story either . 
Most of them weren’t very likeable people (not sure if that was intentional to the story). The whole friend group just seemed extremely toxic for eachother, & I had to keep asking myself why are these people friends? 

With that said, there was also a lot of great takeaways from this book! It confronts the struggles with grief, and addiction - with a neat supernatural twist. I loved this author’s energy, & storytelling abilities. Their writing style wraps you in, & you find yourself losing track of time.. 20 + pages later! 
I absolutely loved the supernatural segments, every one of them being extremely graphic & unique. The imagery was actually chilling at times. There was some great twists that I wasn’t expecting, took me completely off guard! Lol 

This book definitely exceeded my expectations, & I still thoroughly enjoyed this one despite what was wrong with it! :) Will be keeping this one afterall for my Horror library! Honestly relieved that this book got itself turned around!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, and Addiction

breeann's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Body horror, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Death, and Grief

nursemelissa19's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

Drug addiction, toxic friendships, and grief wrapped in a ghost story. This was intense and not what I was expecting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Body horror

phantomgecko's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.5

I didn't like this at all. I don't know why I finished it. Stubborn I guess.

For one, I just couldn't relate with Erin at all. Her psychotic dependence on Silas was annoying and inexplicable. I understand it's a commentary on addiction, but all the characters just sucked so much.

Also, the author has a choking fetish or something because, boy howdy, did they use the word "throat" excessively and repeatedly depict and describe choking.

Final word, it was upsetting and not worth the message. idk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

akusdogs's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

The concept of the story is intriguing enough to make you want to read it… and that’s it. Sadly the characters are all insufferable with no real sense of commitment to anyone but themselves. The plot becomes messy about halfway through. It is a spooky read with some good descriptions of horror and body horror sprinkled in, however those descriptions can’t save the book. The ending is entirely chaotic and anti-climatic at the same time. It’s disappointing. I really wanted to love this book because the concept is so interesting and had potential to be an incredibly moving storyline. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Vomit

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

this book is crazy. it feels like a fever dream to read. the characters are all pretty insufferable but luckily it didn’t ruin the experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cursing, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Medical content

l_piller's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: Cannibalism