Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

10 reviews

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

I adored the storyline of this book! Four best friends, Zoey, Celsete, Valeria, and Jasmine, are what are know as Hollow. The Hollowing was a viral ghoul contagion that turned part of the population into flesh eating monsters. As a solution, scientists developed SynFlesh, synthetic human flesh. As the girls head to a Southern California music festival for the weekend, weird things begin to happen, starting with Val attacking and eating one of the performers. I love that this focused on all four girls and their journeys from normal, to hungry flesh eating ghoul, to reformed and relatively normal Hollow person. I think the fun girls trip turned murder mystery zombie adventure is hilarious and hugely engaging. My issues stem from the chronology. This book would flash forward and backward between each girl pretty frequently. The issue is the different times were not explicitly stated so it became a tad confusing. Also Zoey was the main character but shared the stage (she should either been telling this in first person or had a more equally divided story). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lilawsahar's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

cute sapphic campy gory read, what more can you ask for? Four best friends go to a music concert in the desert. Oh and they’re all ghouls. Someone is making people ghoul-out, so the characters need to find out who and try to stop it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Violence, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aingealwroth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Cannibalism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Hate crime and Misogyny

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Vomit

sweetteaandfiction's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This Delicious Death by @kcottcan

This book was gifted to me by my bby girl, Cait; and I tore into it once I sat down to read it. 

PROS: 

🧟‍♀️Solid World Building

🧟‍♂️Well placed flashbacks and inserts at the beginning of the chapters that helped you feel more connected to the characters in the present or give you a better idea of what is going on outside our main character’s POV. 

🧟‍♂️Celeste is an icon. 

🧟‍♀️varied LGBTQIA+ representation 

🧟‍♂️a new-ish, unique take on zombies 

🧟‍♀️Best friends to soulmates 

🧟‍♂️Found family 

CONS: 

🧟‍♂️The fact people could find time to be racist, sexist, or homophobic during a literal zombie apocalypse felt a little too real for me. 

🧟‍♀️It felt a little Deus Ex Machina at times when certain things just happened to conveniently appear or be there when needed, but my biggest gripe with this is that I wanted MORE of the characters and things getting neat little ribbons was stopping that. 

🧟‍♂️Capitalism making its way into what she be considered medical treatment (ie SynFlesh) 

🧟‍♀️People peopling their way through the apocalypse 

🧠🧠🧠🧠 / 4.5 out of five SynFlesh brains for this cute little fast paced LGBTQIA+ horror pick

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and Lesbophobia

bella613's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

Fun, really fast read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Confinement, Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

ee_comins's review

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense fast-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, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Transphobia, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Deadnaming, Misogyny, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

kenziehath's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Blood, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rachel_tb's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Drug use and Misogyny

genevieve_eggleston's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Biphobia, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria