Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Hike by Drew Magary

21 reviews

alisacress's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Alcohol

gorbon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Alcoholism and Child abuse

indiaaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Terrifying, incredible, mind melding. Drags a little in the middle due to becoming an exhausting never-ending nightmare that nearly has you losing hope. It is kind of fake deep in a college short film kind of way, but is still worth it all in the end. Definitely a fun and crazy adventure that keeps you on your toes and turning pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Car accident

telurin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

I have never met a more unlikable protagonist. Ben is whiny and self-centered. He is not likable, and the narrative doesn't try to much to convice you.  I got through this book mostly by hoping that the "twist" at the end was going to be worth it. 

It was okay. 

This should have been a short story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Minor: Death, Blood, Cannibalism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

6whitepines's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Vomit

antimony's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

really fun really readable and i quite enjoyed the very last page. also the cover is quite cool! it was quite weird in a fun way at some bits and sometimes weird in an odd way but i did enjoy it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Child death

ladykatka's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was far better than it had any right to be. It was a lot funnier than I thought it would be. Loved ever moment of it, but I have to admit that the side characters are WAY better than the main character. 

Also why wasn't this book titled "The Path" it is mentioned so often that I felt like that was supposed to be the title.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, and Cannibalism

jenbosen's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

2.0

This book was so stupid. Not offensively bad, just...stupid. Like Alice in wonderland meets the Truman show, with more violence, less thoughtfulness, and probably written while high on something.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

dealingwithdragons's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

Anybody triggered by unreality might want to give this a skip.

muzzfuzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder