Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

7 reviews

sofiam19's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Minor: Addiction

chantale's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

More of a dark thriller. Good but a challenging book some Louise Penny fans of her cozy mysteries may not welcome or be able to handle. I enjoyed the book. It is more fast paced than her typical books. 

This isn’t your typical Louise Penny, don’t go in assuming it is. If you’ve watched the TV show and found the underlying theme of indigenous and murdered women difficult then you will find the theme of violence against women and children difficult in this book.  

Read my further explanation of the book with spoilers highlighted for you to skip if you are on the fence and need to decide if this book in the series is suitable for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Sexism, and Violence

If you don’t like descriptions of body mutilation and serial killers, the parts describing a past and merging current case with an offender Gamache kept being bars is difficult. This might be a Louise Penny book you skip some sections of , and won’t lose context of the plot, character development. But also, skip this one entirely and read the gentle publisher book description and skip this one. If you don’t like reading about women accused of being witches or don’t read about witchcraft for personal /religious reasons, this book may also not suit you.

I had flashbacks to the horror movie The Human Centipede. If the title alone of this movie disturbs you it should; the book has a similar dark past crime.

If the Ecole Polytechnic Massacre in Montreal difficult Gamache is portrayed as involved in this event going back in time in his career. He also attends a graduation for graduates of the school’s engineering program.

kaitlinnoodles's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Mass shooting cw: includes a somewhat fictionalized account of the

1989 mass shooting at École Polytechnique

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

saraberkes's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I always love Louise penny’s books. This one is really dark subject-matter wise, and there are things in the plot that I need to reread to figure out how everything in the ending comes about, but like all her books, it’s captivating and I couldn’t put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty

j_hornick's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

uranaishi's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, and Colonisation

purplepenning's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Cultural appropriation