Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

87 reviews

beccaburchett's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Racism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Alcohol

erinmcav's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

bedroominarles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug use

hashbrownhedgehog's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

cryptkid's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, and Blood

queersubtext's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Addiction and Cancer

lizard800's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

Jessica John'sis truly an amazing writer. The way she is able to build a scene and transport the reader is really cool. I could relate to closely to many of the scenes she described (like the aunties all playing cards) and I felt like I literally had to snap out of it when the book continued on because I was so deeply transported back in my memories by the writing.

The book takes a little while to pick up, but when it does you're really in it. I thought the ending was really touching. Definitely reccomend. This book is worth the hype.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kirbyworming's review

dark emotional tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

astridrv's review against another edition

The horror/magical realism felt quite classic (but well executed), the narrative arc quite predictable (and at times frustrating) but I was taken by how much heart there is in the story, how many details about family, grief, solidarity. The characters were so loving and the book is clearly driven by hope and healing.
 
"What else have we got to do with all this time but get it right?" 

Also loved learning some Cree words and the fact that the chapter numbers were written in Cree. I initially picked this book because it is set in Vancouver, but most of it was set in the Prairies. Fortunately the writing translated the setting really well and I was immersed throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism

daniellekat's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

I saw that this was originally a short story and I wish it had stayed that way. The storytelling was repetitive and so descriptive. I hated the intense overuse of similes. This style of writing would have been more palatable in a short story. The characters were annoyingly unlikable because they consistently made the same mistakes and choices with little to no growth. The ending felt rushed and wrapped up too quickly for me given how long we spent on the build up. I thought the gore was well placed and I did enjoy the horror elements of the story. The narration of the audiobook was also great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Racism and Self harm

Minor: Terminal illness