Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

17 reviews

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Incest, and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, and War

col_atreides's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Torture

Minor: Body horror

mysamcatfan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-paced

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

5.0

What the fuck did I just finish reading 😀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder

nougatcrunch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

When he said "it's wormin' time"

and turned into a worm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Body horror and Torture

Minor: Suicide and Kidnapping

rachaelbunny's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Incest, Slavery, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: War

eleasofia's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

i ended up liking this book the most out of the first three of this series. i had to force myself through the first 20-25%, but after that, it became intriguing again. just like dune and dune messiah, it's tough to read, especially if english isn't your native language, but it's doable. like in the previous books, some descriptions were just really long-winded and verbose, which didn't interest me much, but the story itself became very good once the pace picked up a bit. there were some scenes that were disturbing, but i didn't mind. there were many twists i didn't see coming and i loved that. i also loved the complexity and how the universe was expanded on, especially regarding the worms. out of all the characters, i ended up being most fond of ghanima and farad'n. i'm definitely going to read the next book too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Incest, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

sarah_tani's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Colonisation

Minor: Incest

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

lizzyjean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

A beautiful continuation of the Dune Saga. This book dives even deeper into the religious politics of the Dune universe than the two previous, and makes you excited to read God Emperor of Dune. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Incest

The children of this book are mentally centuries old and have lived thousands of lives, but their bodies are still children (around 16). Throughout the book their individual relationships are spoken about, and it is implied that they both individually will have sexual lives with people who are currently adults.

infinite_harness9030's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting