Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Harleen by Stjepan Šejić

7 reviews

casdelvo's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

paperpetal's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.5

My friend gave me this book to read because she loves Harley and knows how much I love the Batman universe. That being said she’s not one of my favorite character's and I’m so over the Joker. He is so over used and over analyzed that I find him incredibly boring. However, the art work is stunning and the dialogue is great. It’s a solid graphic novel.

 I needed a minute to come up with my review because I’m so familiar with these Characters. I love BTAS, which is where Harley was first introduced. If this came out closer to when that aired I would find it a bit more truer to pieces of their characters. Over the past 30 plus years their characters have changed so much that I had to almost look at this book like an AU. With the more current adaptation of the Joker I find it almost impossible to believe he would have ever had this kind if dialogue with another character. His obsession with Batman makes it unbelievable. 

I don’t dislike Harley. I really love the antihero she’s become. I feel like this gave a more thorough origin story for her that’s never really been written before. I never could figure out how anyone could fall for the Joker. With the exception of the very cartoonish “Mad Love” plot. This novel makes a very reasonable and realistic case for it. I’m still grossed out by it. 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

frantically's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Obsessed! Such a great insight into Harley's character and really makes you understand her and her motivations better — deep down, she still believes she can save the Joker...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Bullying, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

indeedithappens's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lolajh's review

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.75

Wowowowowowowow. This was a really good interpretation of Harley’s story. Like really. Building up the character of Harleen Quinzel right until

the very end,

made this story so much more tragic, because she starts off as someone with dreams and someone to root for and

I knew what was going to happen but I had hope that it wouldn’t anyway.

I love Harley so much more now, though every time I see her as Harley Quinn from now on I will be even more sad about her backstory and how she got there, how Batman was right:

the Joker did use her and it’s not all her fault.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

jlsigman's review

dark fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

micah_thelibrarian's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood