Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The One by John Marrs

19 reviews

mairi99's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Gore, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Infertility, Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Medical trauma, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Grief, Murder, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Pedophilia

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death, Body horror, Terminal illness, Cancer, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, and Infidelity

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, and Miscarriage

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexism, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Animal death, Death of parent, and Cursing

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Body horror, Cancer, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Blood, Miscarriage, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Stalking, Abandonment, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

roseschlumpf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Cancer, and Murder

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

Unexpected gore and detailed serial killer info, couldn’t push through because it was too graphic. Should have read the TW before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Hate crime, Gore, Torture, Death, and Body horror

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

What a spectacular, brilliantly creative piece of writing. I couldn’t put it down and fell asleep reading it after keeping myself up way too late on a work night, that good. There are a multitude of storylines for varying characters and relationships, all centering around the universal “truth” that, in this world, there is one perfect match for everyone on earth and it’s genetically determined. Just send in a DNA sample and await your results. Simple, right? Far, far from it. Absolutely riveting, I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

Edited to add: this is sci-fi, and the science written here is obviously not sound. If you’ll be bothered by the scientific inaccuracies of the central element here then skip this, otherwise have fun pretending it’s real :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Infidelity, Homophobia, Abortion, Infertility, Miscarriage, Car accident, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Vomit, Medical content, and Medical trauma

franklola's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Blood, Gaslighting, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Alcohol, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

taria's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

marchhare89's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Grief, Mental illness, Infidelity, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Stalking

nahtehreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Loved/hated the multiple storyline’s  because when a plot twist happened you had to read the other storyline’s before you got back to the one that interested you but it also created suspense. A lot of plot twists which were unexpected which is definitely what you want in a psychological thriller!! 

Loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Stalking, Blood, Mental illness, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Minor: Kidnapping, Infidelity, and Child death

I honestly loved Christian’s storyline and how he fell in love with a police officer. It’s bloody ironic