Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

6 reviews

circe1892's review

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Body horror

nialiversuch's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, and Cancer

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Dementia, Body horror, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

deetabz's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Excrement, Confinement, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Infertility, Body shaming, and Cancer

Minor: Sexual content, War, Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Drug abuse

marieke17's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This book is so beautiful. I would recommend it to literally everyone. Reading about a group of woman that escaped a prison not knowing what to expect but still having hope in finding other people. <The way they have so much respect for the dead every time the find a new bunker or when one of them dies. The way this woman decides to follow her dream to keep looking after she’s the only one left.> The way she doesn’t know anything other than what the other women have told her and how she wants to know everything.
This book leaves me in tears, questions and a smile.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Body horror, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Confinement, and Body horror

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Excrement

jenail's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

this book is really really dark to the point that I am still thinking about it a full month after having read it. definitely worth the read. very much an allegory for the holocaust/world war 2 in general once you pick up on the themes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror