Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

12 reviews

genhart3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.5

-REAL Enemies to Lovers
-Dark
-Romantasy/ Werewolves, Fae, witches etc
-MMC Alphahole
-MFC strong, flawed, not completely realistic
-55% smut
-Constant cussing
-Dont even come close to figuring things out
-CLIFFHANGER

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Trigger Warnings:
Murder, suicide idealization, still-born, gore, self harm, physical abuse, child abuse, attempted child murder, mate marking, molestation, voyeurism... Probably more.
Mentioned but not described in detail: Rape, gang rape, child rape, molestation, savage mulastation, voyeurism, necrophilia, attempted abortion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cannibalism, Death, Rape, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Sexism, Excrement, Infidelity, Confinement, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Murder, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual content, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Blood, Bullying, Violence, Slavery, and Torture

laur_astor's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

2.5

Where do I begin… this was a roller coaster. 😅

It certainly kept my interest the whole time and the smut was decent.

But I did have some issues with this book… the word “fuck” was overused to say the least, the sexual violence was very graphic, and the dialogue was repetitive and a lot of it was unnecessary. Like the whole book could’ve easily been cut down by over a hundred pages.

The plot is super thin and I didn’t know what was happening for a lot of the book, and the major conflict mostly centered around virginity and rape. Toward the end I was more invested in the characters than I was at the beginning, but they were still super unlikeable and it was hard to root for anyone.

I hear the series does get better in the second book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Gore, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Child death

kaylasasaki's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

3.0

I wish there was a bit more plot, I’ve heard the second one is better! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Murder, and Ableism

Choking

taylorsversion28's review

dark sad fast-paced

0.5

Please please look at the content warnings before reading this book. 
It’s horrible but weirdly addictive, like I want to stop but can’t 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gore, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual violence, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Racism, Cursing, Grief, Drug use, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

nmjezebel's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

0.25

Terrible. I nearly dnf several times. The world could be interesting but you can’t really tell because the characters are horrible and I hated them all. They never get better. There’s plenty of smut but it’s honestly gross because both characters just suck. Do not recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Violence, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Body horror, and Body shaming

Don’t waste your time.

marissafurbay's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Violence, and Torture

robinainthood's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

2.0

This was...... something. I was very tempted to give this book a one star but, like, here's the thing; it was entertaining. Albeit, in the same way shitty reality tv is entertaining. Like, "God, these people suck and this is such garbage content but why can't I stop watching?" 

Anyway, this book is fun to read if you don't take it seriously--and especially if you hate read it with friends or something--otherwise just skip this one, I think. It's way too long to be this bad.

(Also, that disclaimer at the beginning was such a red flag to begin with. "caveman-like asshole" ???? ma'am???)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

katevhutchinson's review against another edition

I have absolutely no idea how this book made it to print. It feels like an author sat down with a bottle of wine and wrote it in a night?
I feel like, had it had time and energy spent in it, it could have had real meaning and substance. Except it was all f*** and c*** which isn't really a plot? And heavens, don't get me started on the dialogue, four pages of back and forth that could have been half a page.
Bottom line, just as everyone says, the only reason I made it this far was because it was a train wreck I couldn't look away from. Buh-bye.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

deesquared's review

challenging dark funny 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

This book is dark. But still manages to be compelling. 

Draws on inspiration from various mythology but Hutchins makes it her own, the storyline mostly gets interesting in the second half of the book. 

Enemies to lovers but actually enemies. Is this a bully romance? 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: War and Cannibalism

lilianmelgoza's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

0.5

This might be the worst book I’ve ever read in my entire life.

If a 13 year old writing their very first wattpad fan fiction, an even more incompetent version of the Riverdale writing team, and a porn director collaborated to produce a work of fiction, this would be the result. 

The world-building was half a**ed and done almost exclusively through infodumping. The romance (if you can even call it that) was this repetitive back and forth between the MC and love interest that got annoying so quickly. The plot was nonexistent, and the very little there was of it was so contrived and made no sense. Let’s not even talk about how awful the dialogue was. Also, it was just way too fucking long. So much could’ve been cut out and it wouldn’t have affected the story whatsoever. 

However, as harsh as I’ve been, I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t entertaining as hell. It was like a mess I couldn’t look away from. Also, I actually enjoyed the ending when (SPOILER)  

Aria kills her twin and declares war against Knox. I didn’t think this book would actually go there.

It makes me kinda want to read the rest of the series. 

I’d recommend this for anyone looking for a good laugh and a turn-off-your-brain type of story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, and Violence