Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, by Hank Green

26 reviews

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 5 stars
Characters: 3.5 stars
Plot: 5 stars
Worldbuilding: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Death, Police brutality, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Grief, and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Racism, and Vomit

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Body horror, and Violence

polychromatic_hedgehog_parable's review against another edition

todo

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Gun violence, Addiction, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Racism, and Colonisation

limiwh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Body horror

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Biphobia and Vomit

sarah2438's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

 I enjoyed this one as well! I think I liked the first one a little bit better, but not enough to lower the star rating on this one. They're both very well done. I think the first one made me think more about society's interaction with technology and fame, whereas this book caused me to focus more on how willing we are to let technology ruin us. (It's not as depressing as it sounds-- this book manages to be realistic, yet hopeful.) I think I just enjoyed the focus of the first book a bit more and even though the tech jargon is greatly simplified, it still went over my head a bit at times. I don't know anything about crypto, for example, so in those parts I was just dumbly nodding along. I really liked this duology, and I'm excited to see if Hank Green continues to write in the future. For all the love of John Green, I think he might be stuck in YA-manic-pixie-dream-girl-land, while Hank Green's work has a more mature, balanced feel.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Death, Injury/injury detail, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Medical content, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Racism

cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Confinement, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Body horror, Vomit, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

jenarae's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Blood, Death, Vomit, Classism, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Outing

acepersephone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

If you need a book series to make you feel a little more human again... these are the books. Firstly, what an interesting way to craft a story after the ending of the first book (no spoilers) but wow, that's how you do it. Hank Green is an expert when it comes to navigating social media fame and implores you to be a little more introspective about how you use social media, how you engage and view creators, how creators are flawed and human and deserving of growth and change (as we all are), but also speaks critically of how fame and power can corrupt. In my opinion, this is one of the best modern sci-fi stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Gun violence and Addiction

Minor: Racism

corriejn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Gore, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Vomit and Racism