Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 2 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

20 reviews

booksbutmakeitgay's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

paradicsomleves's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Grief

kouran94's review

adventurous dark funny sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

drsinoire's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Self harm, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping

theirnknight's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.25

As with the first volume, it's a dark comedy, albeit the darkness is now ramped up above the comedy with the secondary lead having grown up and been corrupted. It's classified as a romance, but in practice it doesn't read like one. Instead, it's something of a (still comedically inclined) suspense novel, with the love interest playing the role of antagonist. Overall I think it's less fun than the first, but just as captivating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Gaslighting

_persephone's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, and Blood

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, and Trafficking

mermay's review

dark emotional funny sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Confinement, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Stalking

spaceoctopi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Body horror, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

mal_eficent's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-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

3.0

This is one of those books that is satisfyingly difficult to read. If you enjoyed the end of the first book, the first third of this volume might be a struggle. From the first page, everything is difficult for Shen Qingqiu, miscommunication abounds (not just between the main couple, but every character), and everyone is an idiot. It's deeply, deeply frustrating. But I can respect that the author intends it to be, and it does drag you into the story desperate to see how things sort themselves out. 

Thankfully, the humour and meta nature of the narration is still so much fun and it's an absolute ride from start to finish. The romance is, er, incredibly weird and the illustrations make it more obvious than the text that's there's tension going on, in my opinion. 

If you're on the fence about continuing, this might be the book that puts you off, but I promise the third book picks straight back up after this one if you are invested with the series and are struggling through book 2!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body horror and Bullying

Minor: Chronic illness

loveyoulike's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? No

3.75

lbh you are a mystery to me

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Body horror, Suicide, and Toxic relationship