Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims

56 reviews

kyra_joy's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

I liked the idea of this book I think more than the execution. Not all the stories were equal and I found it hard to get through some of them. And the over all message was pretty heavy handed especially at the end. But I did enjoy some of the stories enough that I can’t say it isn’t worth a read, just a bit of slow one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Classism

orizenda's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Cannibalism and Classism

casdelvo's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Mental illness and Cannibalism

Minor: Deadnaming and Police brutality

gagereadsstuff's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Deadnaming, and Colonisation

rayne_fall's review

dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Suicide, Transphobia, and Colonisation

One of the ghosts is a chronically ill older man who was due to be evicted after his partner died and it's implied that he took his own life as a result of this. It's also mentioned that the same character didn't receive anything from his partner's estate as a result of either a lack of legal recognition or his partner's family being homophobic

One of the main characters gave his digital assistant control of everything in his apartment. The assistant becomes haunted and acts outside of its programming, eventually imprisoning him in the apartment and replacing him with a doppelganger who's supposed to be a better version of him

Another main character experiences severe insomnia and becomes dependent on a fictional medicine (which was recalled due to side effects) in order to sleep

lavend3r_cactus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Deadnaming and Deportation

vstarlight's review

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

ofi's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Classism

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Colonisation

phantompansy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Transphobia, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury