Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Nuestras esposas bajo el mar by Julia Armfield

859 reviews

hannah_t0321's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

emi__mz's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Beautiful and provocative. If you're a fan of elegant prose and ocean metaphors for queerness and grief this one is for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, Death of parent

raichoreads's review against another edition

4.25

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Such an enjoyable read! Admittedly I went back and forth between 4 and 5 stars, the literary fiction aspects being extremely compelling but the conversational tone setting it back a bit for me. But generally this was a really engaging and heart wrenching work. A really beautifully written meditation on love and grief. The ending made me cry!

Wasn’t super into the only bi character being Supremely Annoying to Miri and kinda infantilized by other characters but whatevs

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia

toadtiger's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

oliv_how's review against another edition

4.0

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Body horror

sherri_berri's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Death of parent

Minor: Lesbophobia

sassthathoopy's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Terminal illness

Minor: Homophobia, Death of parent, Lesbophobia

archive_drea's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mental illness

roaming_enn's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment

rsm23's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Grief

Moderate: Death

Minor: Terminal illness, Death of parent