Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

4 reviews

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Misogyny, Outing, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Lesbophobia, Grief, Sexism, Terminal illness, Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Physical abuse, Racism, and Toxic relationship

honeybunchesofoats06's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexism, Blood, Body shaming, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Child death, and Death of parent

recycled_personalities's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

It’s a very well written book and I do genuinely recommend it with all my heart. However, it is not void of flaws. I strongly recommend seeking out some opinions from POC (especially Latinx and Black POC) about this book and how it talks about race before reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

eliicapss's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent