Reviews tagging Body horror

Leviathan Wakes, by James S.A. Corey

48 reviews

pvbobrien's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Gore, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Misogyny, Police brutality, Medical content, and War

Minor: Suicide, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Cancer, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Rape, Trafficking, and Vomit

nairam1173's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: War, Vomit, Gun violence, Death, and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

tpal_'s review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, and Gore

emilyplun's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Medical content and War

mugs_it_is's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexism, Misogyny, and Body horror

Moderate: Racism

booksthatburn's review against another edition

Not my thing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Medical trauma, Body horror, and Death

Minor: Excrement, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

mostlyvoidpartiallystars's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Violence, Vomit, and Body horror

Moderate: Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual violence, War, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Medical content

kitausu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I can tell that this book is good for what it is. Unfortunately what it is just isn't for me. If you like scifi I strongly urge you to give this one a go, it's just not my typical genre so I didn't have a great time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, and Violence

ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

4.5

This is definitely going on the re-read list. Probably on a list of books to buy, which is meaningful considering I’m broke.


I read the book after watching the first episode of the show and fell in love so hard I don’t think I can be impartial about evaluating the books good-ness.

Deep characters, realistic dialogue, deep lore and world building. 

A note on the writing of relationships … 

Spoiler

It’s the one and only sci fi book I have ever read, written by a man (men?) that had a sex scene WITHOUT bodily objectifying women. Without bodily objectifying anyone. Such a minor plot point, less than two pages, but for me it reframed my expectations of the book. No weird porny misogyny. Just an earnest description of what it means to share intimacy 

One aggravating, potential plot hole (hence the half star deduction) 

Spoiler

Why the fuck wouldn’t they just crash Eros into the sun as planned? It’s great for the plot to have it land on Venus but it was so out of character and out of dynamic 

I’m not mad though, because I would have hated for this to only be one book. But I hope they get their shit together on the next one tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Excrement, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, War, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Torture

jupitermond's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, and Genocide

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment