Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

4 reviews

peggy_racham's review

4.25

What would you give up to be mortal again?

The answer being you never wanted that. You wanted a choice in immortality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bolivianrash's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Starting from 5 stars:
-1.0 for SA
-0.5 because wtf Louis
-0.5 because David deserved better
+0.5 for good boy Mojo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

avie_j's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

carrionkid's review against another edition

3.0

This book could've been good. There were a lot of plot threads and concepts presented that could've been honed into a compelling final product. Unfortunately, miss Rice decided to fire her editor and my GOD does it show!

There's multiple completely incoherent passages. So many descriptions of pissing. Wildly unsexy erotic scenes. Wholesale rape. And the whole thing should've ended much sooner than it did, which she tried to play off coyly as a self aware joke in chapter thirty two, which ultimately fell flat because it should've ended well before even that.

However, it's a perfect example of why a published author needs an editor so I guess it serves one greater purpose.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury