Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

7 reviews

peeshpish's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.0

i hated this book but i read the whole thing just to see how it ended so i guess it isnt a zero

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

cmayans's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

the ending was pretty fast paced and I liked the last couple pages where the Mira (main character) has a big realization with her mom

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

morganperks's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

lots of things don't add up.

still don't get how that one hitchhiker kept finding them. where was Josh hiding their stuff? and whatever happened to the kid they ran over? like I'm sure the dad is itching to kill them all...ya know? for revenge. are they not charged with attempted murder or theft at least? did Josh know the flights were going to be canceled?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Vomit, and Alcohol

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

this book was almost Exceptionally boring i dont know how it did it. it was so easy to figure out who the villain of it was like what was the POINT

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

little_water_droplet's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

We aren't going to talk about this because jfc

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Vomit

meganpbennett's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Five Total Strangers is a fast-paced thriller, staring Mira, who agrees to get in a car with four strangers. They're all lying about something and they all have their motivations for why they have to get home before Christmas. Complicating matters, there's a very nasty snowstorm that is making the roads very dangerous to drive. 

Mira, desperate to get home to her mother, agrees to ride share with Harper, her seat mate from the plane. And then she learns that there's three other people in the car, and she knows none of them, but she can guess that they're rich. She's only in high school, but they think she's in college. Things go from bad to worse, when things start disappearing - a wallet, a book, a phone - and phone chargers start breaking. Soon, they're alone, on a deserted Pennsylvania county road, in a blizzard, with a man chasing them for stealing a tank of gas. And a creepy hitchhiker. 

I'm not sure what I think about the ending, finding that it spun up to fast and wound up too fast. I think there could have been some more explanations about what or why, or some indication of the police investigation that has to have been started. Or more information about the hitchhiker, since he was in various scenes, but no more information is available about him. He could be Jack Reacher, for all we know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

bookishgoob's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail