Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Hunted by Darcy Coates

5 reviews

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Alcoholism

witchy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Stalking, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Suicide, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy

ahbmacgregor's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Pretty enjoyable overall! While it isn't a book that's going to win any prizes, this is still a pretty engaging read with just enough tension and mystery to keep it going. I went into it expecting something schlocky and was pleasantly surprised, and that's probably the way to do it. 

Aside from Todd (ugh), none of the character perspectives were flawed in an annoying/frustrating way, and at least Todd feels less present when more perspectives are introduced.

Honestly I was more than happy to see the end of him, even if the decomposition was particularly graphic. He drove me nuts, especially in the blase way he treated wilderness survival, and that's not even mentioning the stalkerish obsession.

The twist was guessable, but not in a way that felt obvious and more like a reward for paying attention. In some ways it felt like the final confrontations were with the wrong people/not enough people, but that wasn't enough to ruin the book. It's worth picking this up if you don't mind some horror tropes and semi-expected beats. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical trauma, Murder, Gun violence, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

silver_reads623's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is so fucking good! I didn't think that I would like it because of the male characters in this book but in the end that didn't even matter to me. The one thing that kind of distracted me a little bit was the Termanology for somethings like torch instead of flashlight meters instead of miles I thought that we were talking about a setting that was in the United States considering us how the narrator sounds American could've very well have been Canadian it was never specified but man I was guessing until the very end I loved it

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror and Blood

sayhar13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Stalking, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail