Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

El Elixir de Flor de Luna by Brigid Kemmerer

8 reviews

thumbeleia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

inkysplodge's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Body horror, Sexual violence, and Vomit

raineedayreader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury

rosie2007's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

zozo_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Great world building did sort of expect the ending though. There was a plot twist in the beginning that I would have never expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

ka_ke's review against another edition

Meh. I think I’ve just moved beyond the Y/A reading level, that or some Y/A authors are just not giving their readers enough credit. As much as a robin hood retelling is interesting and certainly not over done, I think the whole “we hate the king & his brother thing” has become a cliché.  Don’t be a cliché my dear. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

kaseybereading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Torture

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

Holy. Wow. This was a chocolate cake read for sure. (Spoiler) Since I typically read for escapism and this book accidentally was too close to reality for comfort it definitely took me a minute to finish it. But I loved it! What a stressful, heart pounding, heart wrenching book! Can I please know if Jossalyn is okay? What are Arella and the other consul doing? What is the punishment to be for the traitors? I really enjoyed the dual POV. I thought the humanizing of those deemed as not was really interesting and well done. This seemed like a huge body of work to endeavor in and the author did a really good job of getting all the different sides! I will say that Tessa cries a lot, and Quint is… everything. And the thought of Karri and Lochlan being together caught me by surprise and seemed a little unnecessary? But I suspected Allisander for a gooooooood hot minute there. (End spoiler)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol