Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

52 reviews

angerrcat's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

polyamorous vampires? sign me up!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

thesparklyreads's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

People say not to judge a book by its cover but one look at that gorgeous colorful art and I just had to give it a go. Incredibly glad I made that call. I'd been on the lookout for a good queer vampire story to sink my teeth into (haha!) and here it was. 
This was a great read. It was full of action, lore, intense characters and mystery. There weren't any dull moments and I'm excited to read the second book soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

wordswritinstarlight's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

No notes. Highly recommend to anyone who has ever read a vampire novel and gone "you know, I feel like they could have gone harder on this." Also recommend to anyone who wants polyamory in their fantasy novels but struggles with pure romance books, as long as you have a strong tolerance for body horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Rape

Remy has previously been coerced into sex multiple times, ranging from dubiously consensual to aggressively nonconsensual. The matter, and Remy's feelings of shame surrounding it, are discussed at some length.

kitkatkatdog's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.75

A few parts I got one of confused, but overall very enjoyable. Whole thing reads like a movie, there’s a montage scene that I could visualize so nice as a movie montage, very fun!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse and Toxic relationship

biobeetle's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, and War

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, and Pregnancy

love_and_lilacs's review

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

1.5

Silver Under Nightfall was actually already on my TBR list. I even wrote it down with actual ink in a notebook I use as a book journal, so needless to say, I was excited to see it pop up on NetGalley, particularly as my very first title to review. The cover is gorgeous, there's vampires, and a description of politic intrigue melded with an interesting sci-fi premise. 

Unfortunately, this was not for me. I found the execution of every part of this novel lacking, from the world building to the romance. I believe there was a compelling idea here, but what came out was a sort of pseudo-fanfiction that seemed to expect me to already be aware of the ins and outs of the fandom. 

One of the main draws of the book is its romance which centers on Remy, a vampire hunter, and two vampires, Xiaodan and Malekh, who are already an engaged couple. And for some reason they're in love with Remy. I mean, literally that's the explanation. Why Remy? Why not? It hardly creates a romance that I feel invested in, let alone one that makes me feel anything at all. 

The book is also full of random cursing, which is also fine, but it mostly comes across as corny. A lot of it is meant to sound like some, I don't know, made-up England time period despite not being set in our world. It's all arses and cockwombles (?) and then F-words every other sentence. 

I wanted an epic gothic romance between vampires and a vampire hunter. I wanted intriguing and thorough world-building. I wanted a full exploration of the sci-fi premise of the mutant vampires. I got none of the above. 

In general, I found that the female characters were much more compelling. Xiaodan and Elke drew my attention far more than any other characters in the book. Malekh is a predictable cardboard trope and Remy is the kind of dumb that is typically reserved exclusively for shonen protagonists. 

This wasn't for me. But maybe it's for you if you're really into Castlevania, anything to do with vampires at all, or hey, maybe what's a problem for me is a selling point for you. 

ARC provided by NetGalley

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

nyannarb's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Child death

banannafox's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Miscarriage, Vomit, Grief, and Classism

tifftastic87's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Ok so I really enjoyed parts of this. The problem is the main character kills me. He's so determined to have everyone dislike him and to take the blame for everything. It doesn't matter how many times people say "I'm not mad at you" he's like "I know you're mad and hate me now." Boy get it together. Take it from an elder emo. The side characters are so good though and the politics and the horror. Its just Remy fucking mopey ass Pendergast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Medical content, and Pregnancy

panbread's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Starts off a little slow but it's absolutely worth it! I'm thoroughly attatched to these characters now, would fight the whole world for Remy, bye, I gotta go cry over them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Wasn't sure what tag to use for this, but there is a relationship where an adult takes advantage of a teenager sexually. Exchanging sex for intel. This continues for several years, going into adult hood. It's not exactly asault or rape since it's consensual but there's definitely something traumatic about it. There is only brief mentions of the actual acts but the book spends significant amount of time handling the psychological after effects.