Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair

6 reviews

charliebites's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, War, Animal cruelty, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Animal death, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement and Suicide

Minor: Vomit, Child death, and Alcoholism

ninahuynh's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Again, I think some of the sex scenes could be faded out or cut out and replaced with more soul-intimate scenes, if that makes sense. Some of the occurances just don't make sense holistically and I don't see Hades or Persephone going that route either. Like they just teleport from a horrid fight scene and then suddenly coitus 🤨😑  I skipped the Hades series as of this review, so it was my first encounter with the different povs and from characters other than Persephone and Hades. I enjoyed that. I think it was also a good way to transition out of this series to the next one!! I love the ending- it was sweet. I am excited to read more on Aphrodite and Hephaestus, and Dionysus and Ariadne.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual violence, War, Cursing, Physical abuse, Death, Body horror, Confinement, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Ableism, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Suicide, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Chronic illness, Rape, and Sexism

elin247's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Check trigger warnings! A good conclusion to a retelling of Hades and Persephone that spans 4 books. A lot darker and longer than the previous books with many more characters POVs that shows the build up to the war and through it. Theusus' chapters were almost unbearable to read, his treatment to other characters made me despise him. I really enjoyed Dionysus' characterisation and his relationship with Ariadne. Some really hard deaths came from this book but I felt it was nesasary to develop Persophone from an innocent almost mortal to the powerful queen of the underworld. Hecates love and protection over Persephone was so great and Hermes humour really lifted this book in dark moments. Overall the characters really carried this world but the plot sometimes fell short with battles commencing fast and issues being resolved very fast

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicide, Addiction, Gore, Self harm, Body horror, and Confinement

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

Sadly, not nearly as strong as the previous books and really disappointing in some aspects. 

I still love Hades and Persephone and they were definitely the highlight in this book for me but it didn't even feel like a Hades and Persephone a book at some point, just...a war book. I also feel like we've lost any aspect of a "modern" retelling – Persephone's media job seems non-existent and all the time is spent in the underworld anyway.

Hermes is reduced to nothing more than comic relief (and bad one at that) and Apollo doesn't appear until like 80% in.

Sooo many people and gods died in this and it all felt so inconsequential and basically noone mourned?? There's horrid things happening and we just don't get any satisfying conclusions.

Definitely my least favourite of the series 🥲 Still love the rest of them though 🫶🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Sexual violence, Medical content, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, War, Murder, Body horror, Gore, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Grief, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent

jennaniho's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death and Body horror

rainmonto's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

ugh this series was great until i found the bonus chapter 🤦🏻‍♀️ i’m tired of the persephone X hades novels being great until the end. why can’t they just leave the ending alone?  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Suicide