Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

149 reviews

amessina3399's review against another edition

3.75

dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Overall, a really good time! This book does a great job of transporting you into the true, nasty Victorian era, language and chapter introductions and all. It's a quick and easy read, and gives you just enough gore and nastiness of the kills without going so in-depth that it's hard to stomach. This is a great horror/slasher novel without being splatterpunk, and the descriptions are rich with life (and death). That being said, some minor plot-holes here and there, and while the language really lent itself to the world of the story, I was grateful I was reading the ebook so I could quickly get definitions of words so I could get a proper understanding of what exactly the narrator was talking about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Classism

bookwyrm_roo's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

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Too graphic for my tastes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

thejennybee's review against another edition

4.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

nialiversuch's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Vomit, Abandonment

Minor: Cursing, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

v0idborne's review against another edition

2.0

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Shocking, not particularly clever. Unreliable narrator doesn't quite explain the plot holes. I hope the movie takes a cue from The Substance and plays up the grossness, it's the most memorable part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Misogyny, Self harm, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Cannibalism

Every kind of violence and gore possible - eye trauma, dental trauma, animal abuse/death, violence against children and infants, poisoning, stabbing, hanging, burning, burying alive...

emily_tench's review against another edition

5.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

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, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

rachelwrighting's review against another edition

3.5

dark funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

t_rex_'s review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is insane! It is gruesome and gory yet delicious at the same time! Don’t read this if you have a weak stomach, but for those who have a strong one or are just as weird as I am, bite into this book as hard as you can and don’t let go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage

lailaology's review against another edition

3.0

dark funny tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Whilst wildly different to my past reviews, “Victorian Psycho” is a fast-paced, frivolously frightening descent into the gruesomely ghastly world of Winifred Notty; a protagonist so charmless in her bug-eyed brilliance and horrific humour, it made the less palatable, insecure parts of the novel more acceptable, or at least easier to ignore. Feito’s historical remarks are as viciously funny as they are factual accurate — a refreshing relief to many history-snobs like myself.  Similarly, Feito’s mix of modern and Victorian styles of prose and character(s) are comparatively well-balanced albeit still unhinged in their presentation; although it would have been nice to have the other characters, besides Notty (and to an extent Drusilla), be more “fleshed out” (pun intended). 

If I have not already made it abundantly clear, the novel is not for the faint of heart; even my stomach churned at certain moments! It shares a variety of graphic gore, an unpleasant cast of deliciously despicable characters and a form of prose and narration some may find off-putting. Yet, if you delight in the disturbed and sometimes wish to axe an annoying man in the face — then maybe ‘The Darkness’ might be calling out to you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Incest, Infertility, Pedophilia

angiefrakes's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was a psychotic fever dream from start to finish. It is equal parts tragic, sad, and utterly disgusting. Clearly I’m in my feminine rage reading era, because I loved this book. It’s such a quick and easy read. But definitely be aware that there is body horror, graphic descriptions of murder of children and animals, gross food stuff, and brief mentions of DV. This book is definitely not for everyone, and maybe read reviews and check trigger warnings before you read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia