Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Sorrow and Starlight by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

4 reviews

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

I really loved how they showed the different faces of grief in this book. It was raw and ugly and real and really well done. Lots was happening in this book but I loved it and there were definitely high stakes. I really need Seth and Caleb to freaking communicate. Tory has come such a long way but I want to see just a little more from her

she should not be mad at Darcy bc she would’ve done the same thing and she’s mostly upset bc she was drowning in grief

. The twins are absolute badasses and powerhouses. Oh and i still love Lance Orion

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

nineinchnails's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

this did not have to be as long as it was (it was 1200+ pages and ~15 hours of reading according to kindle) but i wasn't that annoyed at the unnecessary chapters in random characters' pov because there wasn't much going on anyway. the first 80% is just doom and more doom but it made up for it in the last 20% and i felt like things were finally starting to look up. the appeal of this series (for me) was it feeling relatively low stakes like if love island was fictional and set in a fantasy world but it's definitely changed over the last few books to a more high stakes/'serious' series and i don't know if it really fits with the way the story and characters were initially written. however, my biggest gripe is with tory's lack of character development. she just kinda reverted to book 4 tory and it was hard to watch. obviously grief was a big theme in the book and it's understandable that she wouldn't be at her best but it was 1000+ pages of her acting like that after she had grown so much in book 6 + 7. also the reunions were SO short (especially relative to the book length) i was pretty disappointed.

i'm excited for the final book though and i'm hoping there is some improvement with her character development now that the gangs all back together but i'm not feeling optimistic about that just yet. i have NO IDEA how they're going to wrap up this whole series in book 9 considering they just introduced a new all-powerful villain in the last 2% of this book but i'd be shocked if this wasn't the last book since it's being read by their beta readers rn. i don't think i'm going to read beyond the veil anytime soon just because i have a feeling it'll be like the awakening atbtb and repeat the plot of things that have already happened just from the pov of other characters and i would rather read that after i've had a little break from the series, for obvious reasons. i was originally planning on reading darkmore penitentiary now but i think i'll wait til after book 9 in case of spoilers😭 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, and Abandonment

franksalot's review against another edition

1.5

i cannot believe i just read a 1200 page FILLER BOOK like so much unnecessary plot please stop giving me point of views from characters i couldnt care less about i miss the good old days where it was just the main characters and god was this book mentally draining SO MUCH GRIEF 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Blood, and War