Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The One by John Marrs

16 reviews

roseschlumpf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Cancer, and Murder

readingwithmeredith's review

Unexpected gore and detailed serial killer info, couldn’t push through because it was too graphic. Should have read the TW before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Hate crime, Gore, Torture, Death, and Body horror

cady_sass's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

What a spectacular, brilliantly creative piece of writing. I couldn’t put it down and fell asleep reading it after keeping myself up way too late on a work night, that good. There are a multitude of storylines for varying characters and relationships, all centering around the universal “truth” that, in this world, there is one perfect match for everyone on earth and it’s genetically determined. Just send in a DNA sample and await your results. Simple, right? Far, far from it. Absolutely riveting, I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

Edited to add: this is sci-fi, and the science written here is obviously not sound. If you’ll be bothered by the scientific inaccuracies of the central element here then skip this, otherwise have fun pretending it’s real :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Infidelity, Homophobia, Abortion, Infertility, Miscarriage, Car accident, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Vomit, Medical content, and Medical trauma

franklola's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Stalking, Blood, Gaslighting, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Alcohol, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

taria's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

marchhare89's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Grief, Mental illness, Infidelity, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Stalking

nahtehreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Loved/hated the multiple storyline’s  because when a plot twist happened you had to read the other storyline’s before you got back to the one that interested you but it also created suspense. A lot of plot twists which were unexpected which is definitely what you want in a psychological thriller!! 

Loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Stalking, Blood, Mental illness, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness

Minor: Kidnapping, Infidelity, and Child death

Spoiler

I honestly loved Christian’s storyline and how he fell in love with a police officer. It’s bloody ironic

the_greywarren's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

 Another decidedly OK book for this year. The plot was decent, I'll give it that, and some of the characters were pretty interesting. The Novum was cool, with the whole DNA Matching, but I just didn't feel particularly invested in any of the characters and their stories. In the beginning I found Christopher's chapters to be the most entertaining, but during the end I was looking forward to Nick's chapters more than anything. I kind of felt like this book was just five books all mashed together, since they didn't really overlap at all, and some of them felt way too different from the other ones. If you made me read one of Jade's chapters and then one of Christopher's and told me they were from the same book, I would think you were lying. I'm not sure if this is because I'm not used to reading adult thrillers, but I had to make an index of the characters and their main plot points so I wouldn't get too confused.
Over all I think I just didn't really mesh with the writing style, so it was pretty average for me.
Also like, all the trigger warnings for this book, jesus. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Medical content, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Infidelity, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

hollyd033's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder, Gore, and Violence

laurmich's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence