Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Seep by Chana Porter

24 reviews

radtj's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

egg_apologist's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

Despite what the story's premise might lead you to believe, this story is, strangely, less about alien invasions and more so a very lovely story about life and death and grief and learning how to heal from grief. The narrative does hit you over the head over and over again with its messaging (it’s about as subtle in getting its point across as a cartoon sledgehammer whacking a character over the head), but it’s beautifully written nonetheless. Not to mention this is a super quick read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use

Minor: Body horror and Transphobia

sinslashcos's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Cultural appropriation

a_violentfemme's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.75

I sped through this one and couldn't put it down. This book ultimately does what any good sci-fi should do (in my opinion) which is explore the human experience and as such, it is a great exploration of grief and relationships.

However, I want more from this world and hope that Porter expands this series in someway. There were a lot of unanswered questions I had around the world building and felt the 'short story' at the end was key to contextualising the main narrative. I did really enjoy the concept of a 'slow' and apparently benign alien invasion but again, felt this background took a back seat to the character development.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Alcoholism

inkspitter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Minor: Death

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Transphobia

toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective fast-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

4.75

Really liked this book! It was a quick read and a really interesting concept that I think it explored really well even in the short length that it had to work with. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Alcohol

buttercat42's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Grief, and Abandonment

cozyscones's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Racism and Transphobia

aely's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

3.25

It was a good book, I’ll give it that. It made me reflect on my own life, which is always a good thing, in my opinion. I just didn’t care all that much about the characters, other than the boy and he didn’t end up playing that much of a role in the story. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes dystopia and living in the present. I didn’t connect much with the characters, but I didn’t dislike any of them either. It was a good book, just not a great one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Body horror, Death, Transphobia, Medical content, Dysphoria, and War