Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

32 reviews

nodogsonthemoon's review

adventurous mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

vjov's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

Minor: Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, and Cannibalism

re antisemitism: wouldn't say it's meant to be, but the framing of it felt poor

amandaquotidianbooks's review against another edition

dark hopeful 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

3.75

I liked this slow family drama with intense werewolf lore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Gore

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

gilnean's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pregnancy

albernikolauras's review

emotional reflective tense 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

3.5

If you are going into this book, prepare for a coming of age story of a boy being raised by his Aunt and Uncle who just happen to be werewolves. While this book had hair-raising moments and violence, it was a story focused on trying to exist in a world not designed for you. The violence was adjacent to that more than anything else.

Written in SGJ's slashing words, it was a journey of a book (in a good way). It is another one of SGJ's books were it takes me about 50% of the book to get into it, but then I fly through the last 50%. This is one of SGJ's older books and it does show (he's become a much improved writer), but this books was such a spin on the head of different werewolf tropes, coming of age stories, and horror itself.

Note - If men speaking in Texas accents give you George Bush vibes, you might want to read this physically.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, and Blood

madefrommemories's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

pogue's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kengiedamali's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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: Body horror

Minor: Domestic abuse, Gore, and Sexual content

imrereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

I don't know whether to call this a horror novel, a coming of age, a story about family, a werewolf story... It's all of that, and more. I love the take on werewolves in this story, and how the lore is slowly being revealed. There are really intriguing characters, people with very skewed morals. It took me a bit to get into the story, but once I did I loved it. There's this alternating of first and third person chapters in a nonlinear timeline that's sown so well together. 

This isn't a traditional horror story - if it even is horror. It's quite slow paced, and it follows an unnamed narrator as he grows up and comes of age, waiting to "wolf out" in his dysfunctional werewolf family without knowing for certain that he has the gene. 

I recommend this book, but be vary of the warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Cannibalism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Vomit, and Antisemitism

Regarding the antisemitism and pedophilia warnings:

Pedophilia for a teen pregnancy where the mother was 14. Antisemitism for a scene around temple that's framed weirdly and is quite gory.

thedreaminghare's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror and Gore