Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

30 reviews

pastelhxrmony's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.25

I loved this story all the way through. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me follows the story of Laure, a ballerina in Paris, as she sacrifices herself to the ballet and an eldritch god and slowly becomes a monster.

*SPOILERS*

The things I liked

• Great prose
• Absolutely feral main character
• Lots of great elements that kept me intrigued
• Very good attention to detail, I could visualize the story unfold in my head very vividly 

Things I didn’t like

• The pacing was a bit rough in some areas but not unbearable.
• I found it weird how some details are brought up and never addressed again. For ex, it’s mentioned that Laure had talked to the police after finding Joséphine yet this is never brought up again although it seems important
• I also feel like Joséphine died too early and I think she could have been utilized a little longer. It felt like she was set up to play a bigger role imo

Overall an awesome debut. I did enjoy reading very much and I will definitely read the sequel !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Vomit, and Abandonment

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

keen's review

dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism, Self harm, Torture, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming and Vomit

talonsontypewriters's review

dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

llams'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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

murderousscottishgremlin's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

4.0

I LOVE a morally grey female character. Shea fully committed to Laure’s arc and the payoff was really satisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Blood

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Body shaming, Racism, and Classism

menastarr's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

1.5

this is like a knockoff YA version of “black swan” with fantastical elements

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Self harm

ilaxaria's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Body shaming

readsandsuch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Racism, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying and Self harm

mochimustreads's review

dark emotional tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Racism