Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

146 reviews

alek_n's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

i just know vera would love monster by eminem ft. rihanna

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Domestic abuse, Blood, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Body horror

wyabook234's review against another edition

dark emotional tense

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Torture, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse

micallab's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Violence, Death, Blood, Physical abuse, Murder, Vomit, and Torture

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.5

From the acknowledgements: “Many of us spend our lives searching for something too big to truly name, something that is often (inadequately) summarized as ‘unconditional love.’ If you have gone out seeking this enormous thing, and found yourself in danger; if you have spent any part of your life thinking that something monstrous was normal or inevitable; if you have lost some part of yourself in the process of looking for a place that feels like home - I hope you know that you have always deserved a better kind of love than that.” 

Docked half a star because I am too dumb to appreciate all of the nuance in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Torture

billcbentley's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Death

jitzie's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Love evil women. Love when women are evil. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, and Body horror

dreaminthepast's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

bella613's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Confinement, Murder, Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Grief, Blood, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

sakeriver's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

So, this book was creepy and disturbing as all get-out, which I mean as a compliment. In the dedication, Gailey says that the book is for "everyone who has ever loved a monster." And what I think they do so well—indeed, what they have done well in so many of their books—is to trouble what it means to be monstrous. Who is the real monster of this book? Is there just one? What does it mean to love a monster, or to be loved by one? Can one escape the monstrosity placed into one's life? Gailey never gives us easy answers to those questions, not in this book and not elsewhere. But, man, they always give us a compelling read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Kidnapping and Torture

librarymouse's review

dark 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

4.5

This book starts off as normal as a book about the daughter of a serial killer returning to the home her dying and estranged mother has turned into a money-making shrine to the investigation of her husband's crimes. Then it gets weird with twists that are simultaneously expected and comprised of plot that I could have never expected in decades.
There are still so many questions I want answered, and I would have loved to know the contents of Vera's dad's letters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Murder, Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Confinement