Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

7 reviews

ashamo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Sexual harassment

gewidder's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

itspanicszn's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

After reading a few terrible books I really want to give this one five stars simply for not being awful 😂 buuut I won’t. It’s good though. Classic Dean Koontz. I always enjoy his writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Gun violence

Minor: Car accident

farleighelse's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Decent. Probably won't read again soon. Starts as superstition horror. Mass disappearance/murders. Killer moths? Bad slime. Good cops and doctor save the day from mush. Bad guy gets got.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Sexual harassment

treeofbluegreen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

kittykaz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

- the characters were so human, it was really nice. Not only did their reactions to all the shit that was happening believable and relatable, they actually took the time to question their own morality, which is something i personally never saw before in a horror book. Huge plus point!
- i absolutely, 100% blame Stephen King for this one, but the fact that Lisa (and any other character, for that matter) wasn't sexualized was such a pleasant surprise :) The way those inappropriate comments were depicted and handled in here was super nice. (Though i do wonder why a teenager had to be involved in the first place but that may just be a me problem)
- the mystery of what exactly is responsible for all this was wonderfully set up and carried throughout the entire book, even after we started learning about its nature.
- Going off the last point: I loved reading about the scientific theories they discussed. And i really appreciate how thorough they were with them. They really left no stone unturned!

- at first i thought the whole Kale thing was a little unnecessary but it actually ended up adding a very cool aspect. The question whether it really is as powerful as it seems to be added so much more suspense.
- Flytes theory that it only gained its consciousness from the humans it consumed was also sUPER interesting, since it sort of implies that they really did fight the incarnation of humanities own darkness and evil. Very thought-provoking!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Grief

There are some biblical themes here, talk about the Devil and its depiction in various believe systems.

It is implied that the 'monster' is the Devil or at least believes that it is, though it is never explicitly stated if that is true or not.

sparky_young_upstart's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• 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 and Death

Minor: Child death