Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Tan poca vida by Hanya Yanagihara

528 reviews

oreer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Body horror, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, and Ableism

kazli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.25

it was okay but it did put me in a reading slump around half way reading through it. it was well written and all that, I just think that you have to be in the perfect mindset when reading this, not to mention be aware of EVERY trigger warning. I liked the depiction of abuse, as a victim myself, but I did not like the portrayal that a healthy relationship requires a sexual aspect to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Abandonment, Ableism, Body horror, Car accident, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Trafficking, and Violence

ireyes50's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Bullying, Car accident, Medical trauma, Self harm, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Medical content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

feral_andro's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

tw: suicide

minor spoilers

I did not particularly like this book and don't understand why so many people do. The writing was not immersive for me -- instead of showing the reader who the characters are, all we get are endlessly long descriptions of the author telling us. I typically really enjoy dense writing, but it was not beautiful or original prose.
As for content, I still don't know how I feel about it. As someone who has experienced abuse, I just don't see Jude's internalization of it as realistic. Yes, there are elements of realism,  but I think the degree to which he has internalized what he experienced is dramatized in the extreme and somehow takes away from the experiences of real abuse survivors .... though I have not yet been able to find the words to describe why I feel this.
(Possibly because in the end we're just supposed to accept that some people are too broken to be "saved" and are just destined to die. And as someone who has been suicidal before, I don't like this suggestion at all.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Self harm, Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Acephobia/Arophobia, Dysphoria, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship

queerhoney's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Self harm, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Body shaming, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexual violence, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Cancer

gohawks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Car accident, Pedophilia, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Rape

samlv's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Starts out really slow but once you get through the first 200 or so pages the pace increases and more of the plot is revealed. This is when the character development really starts 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Body horror, and Car accident

Minor: Confinement, Medical content, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Outing, Drug use, Body shaming, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, and Gaslighting

aasiy4h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

my gosh. this book was, to say the least, a mess. not in a bad way, but still a mess. it took me well over a month to read, which was a lot longer than i anticipated. when i read the first 2 chapters, i had immediately rated it a 5 star read and i couldnt wait to read more. maybe thats because my expectations for this book were far out from what the reality was, but i definitely feel like the blurb helped in being misleading. it makes you think its a sad but light story of a friendship between 4 boys turning into men, but that could not have been farther from the reality. the reality is that the book is about jude, one of those boys, and his mysterious past full of sexual abuse, psychological abuse and genuine disgusting trauma that i wouldnt wish on my worst enemy. i dont ever get triggered by trigger warning topics so i typically choose to ignore them, as i did with this, and i dont regret not looking but i do think this book took it wayyy too far. everything was in such vivid detail i felt like i could see it right before my eyes. and in most books, thats a good thing because it shows how good an authors writing is. but with this, it wasnt pleasant. it was literally 720 pages of torture and pain and fucked up shit. im not a fan of long books but i always try to give them a go and this did not need to be that long. i think thats part of what makes it so slow is how you do have to pause and think for a hot minute before you carry on reading and just because of genuinely how many pages there are. when i was around halfway through i started googling what the inspiration was behind it or why hanya yanagihara actually wrote a little life because i thought, wow, if this was based off someones life or something that really is heartbreaking. but no. i looked through a fair few articles and interviews and i couldnt see any reason why she wrote this book. there was no victim whose story she wanted to tell, nothing from her own or her friends experiences, nothing from maybe even some sort of study that sparked an interest or compulsion to write it. nothing. which makes me think she wrote it out of some deep dark place within herself, because who comes up with this stuff from their imagination? i tend to think that every author has a purpose for writing a book, even if its just for pure entertainment, but this feels as if there was no purpose because there was no backstory, which kind of just makes it fucked up. it was just pure pain and torture and messed up situations and was definitely not for entertainment. however, in a strange way, even after all my negatives, it was still a book i was determined to finish and the writing style was so compelling even as it makes you want to stop reading. i think its messed up and selfish what jude had been through and what he did so in the end i had mixed feelings about his character, but other than that some of the other characters were very likeable. they were really well thought out, but i think jude was too thought out in the sense that some of the information laid on the reader was just so gruelling and not needed. 
but all in all, a 4/5 stars, which is probably too generous considering everything ive just said about it but oh well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Grief, Pedophilia, Body horror, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Death

hdestiny1's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Rape, Death, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Child abuse, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Self harm, Grief, Body shaming, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

punishercoded's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

i will spend forever thinking about how cruel the world was to jude st francis 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, Body horror, Child death, Pedophilia, Violence, Vomit, Ableism, Car accident, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Suicide, Eating disorder, Grief, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence