Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

149 reviews

chilivanilli28's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

eatyourenglish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death

znvisser's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

Went into this book knowing I wouldn’t get any answers and therefore I was able to enjoy this wonderful, weird experience. Usually not a fan of scenery descriptions but the writing and/or biology perspective certainly made it more interesting. Throughout I was speculating along with the biologist (and at some point, hallucinating with her too, reading one of my ideas into it and realising later I misread) and formed many theories that may or may not be true. Very intriguing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cancer

toastrats's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Minor: Cancer

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, Violence, Death, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Sexual content, Cancer, and Terminal illness

bibliosexual's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Animal death, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer and Alcoholism

entityj's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death and Gore

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

keegan53's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book is the kind of book that makes you stop, ask yourself “what the heck did I just read”, and reread the sentence. I mean this in the best possible way. Annihilation is such a mind-bending story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Violence, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Sexual content, Self harm, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, and Suicide

A note on the body horror:

Spoiler

things that should not be made out of flesh are made out of flesh

smolbeez's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

karthnemesis's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abandonment, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror