Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Sick Boys by Clarissa Wild

6 reviews

geagleson9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, and Pregnancy

joceewhisner's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

Jesus Christ that was painful to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

poupimali's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.5

This reverse harem is a bit of a mess.
I loved the FMC because she is strong and fierce. 
The boys are well balanced in their depravity (my favorite is Alistair because he is the quiet and the sensitive one).

And yet, this is inconsistent: the sister’s story is clumsily intertwined in the history of this polyamory. 
Even if the plot itself is well thought, it escalated way to quickly without making any sense and it is too long to reach the end.

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Main TW: suicide, degradation, knife injury, blood, fire… please check all the list. This is a lot.

I am a bit disappointed.
I love the Losers series (Harley Laroux) so much that without wanting too, I wasn’t able to stop myself comparing. And Sick Boys is not worthy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Pregnancy

anywho2's review against another edition

Its hard to read. Sentences don't alwayd make sense (i.e. he frowned AND smirked). Any motivation for the characters is hard to see or believe. For some reason I just can't suspend my disbelief for this book. Even the sex isn't worth continuing which is unfortunate because I havr liked some of Clarissa Wild's other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Blood

mayhem9683's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gore, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

trixiereads's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.0

This book isn't that bad. But it felt like it was too focused on the sex scenes which made me lose what the plot was. I like my swear words, but they were used way too many times. 

There was also many parts which made me cringe. All in all, a forgetable book as I forgot everything that I read a mere hour after. But it's not the worse book I've read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy