Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Fairest by Marissa Meyer

16 reviews

manoureads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Child death

Moderate: Body shaming, Pregnancy, Murder, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Emotional abuse, and Death

Minor: Death of parent

maria_pell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

the_white_bear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Body horror

aidamaria_reads's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Fairest (part of the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer) tells the story of lunar queen Levana. Honestly, if it had not been part of this series, I would not have wanted to pick up a book centred around such an appalling main character. Levana is severely damaged and grew up to become a madwoman, despite her trying to justify her actions with flawed logic. But anyone who has read any book of the series already knows that. It was nice catching a glimpse of Winter and Jacin’s backstory though, but overall this part doesn’t make it past three out of five stars for me.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

jerry_pov's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Infertility and Infidelity

empathephant's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

This books was interesting but like 60 million times as dark as the others. Really it was too dark for me. You knew everything that happens was coming which made me able to brace myself a little more but Eve was just so vile and despicable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Violence

Minor: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Infertility, Infidelity, Medical content, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

Many cruel murders of innocent people in explicitly described ways.