Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

38 reviews

frenchvanillapowdercreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

2.0

I read this book first when I was really young and liked it a lot! I loved the romance and magic. However, upon rereading as an adult, the casual racism and body shaming is extremely difficult to ignore.
This book is only not 1 star because it has some good romantic moments and a fast moving plot with a strong sense of adventure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

This book contains statements about body image and weight that would be harmful to a young person. This book contains racist prose, focused on glorifying white people as the highest beauty standard.

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abortion

pleigh02's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Pedophilia and Abortion

gurnoor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion

michellebub's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content

ilana_pop's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I don't know how to rate these anymore...
In book 1 and 2 it was mainly Bella who was absolute bananas. This whole book is a complete madhouse. And frankly I myself feel like I'm going slightly crazy.
Anyhow. I was quite disappointed at the ending.

It felt like a lot of buildup for little to no climax. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it had a happy ending. I think the Cullen family deserves all the happiness in the world, so you won't hear me complain about that part. But a couple of fights, some people getting hurt wouldn't have been so bad? I'm sure some heart wrenching moments could've fit somewhere in there

I'm glad I read the whole series, because oooh boy, what a crazy ride. All there's left to do is read 'Midnight Sun' and reread the first book again (which is, in my humble opinion, the best book in the series).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal death

pinkfawn's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

I read this in two days just in my attempt to finally be free from the fresh hell that is my idea of re-reading this series.

This is somehow the best, and the worst book of all of them-- by not by a lot.

Spoilers Ahead
It's obviously S. Meyer's weird anti-abortion manifesto, Bella makes it painfully clear when she, 18 and pregnant, will not give up the baby that is literally a parasite growing rapidly and actively killing her while she drinks blood out of a 7-11 cup as prescribed by a board-certified(?) doctor. 

This triggered constant eye-rolling every time she was described as weak but in the same breath, readers were made aware of how badly she wanted to keep Jakeward or whatever the male baby name idea was. Speaking of Jacob, his entire 'book' portion was so whiny and annoying and absolutely a displeasure to read.

The only mildly entertaining part of this book was the shady lawyer or whatever who was absolutely terrified of Mr. Jasper (can you blame him)? The Volturi scene was so long and drawn out for literally no reason. 

Midnight Sun is still on my radar, but not for a very, very long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Gore, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

beereads27's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.75

I have so many thoughts. But mainly I just want to know - what the actual fuck was that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Pedophilia

rakkaussipsi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Vomit

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

yoursupremereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

3.0

The final chapter of this series. To say it was a lot. It was a lot, even for my teenage brain when I first read it. But at least Bella got her happy ending with Edward and everything over the series seemed to resolve itself with a good bow on top. Though I will say this series itself, as a grown up, could have a plethora of graduate theses on a myriad of subjects. Though I will say that something that was a good change up for this story was getting a large chunk of the book dedicated to the POV of Jacob. It felt like Meyer was shaking things up enough to keep you engaged and interested until the final POV of Bella by the end of the book. For what it was back then, it was an okay book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Blood