Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer

21 reviews

r3ader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, Medical content, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse, Stalking, Death of parent, and Abandonment

skylar_river's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Torture, and Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence and Death of parent

aeori's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

nenatie's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Torture, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

chamaeleontis's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

5.0

I’ve been reading the webtoon for a while. The book is absolutely amazing. I normally can’t get lost in books that I read on electronics. Not Even Bones is a rare exception and I’m excited to read the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

booksanna's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

Alright, this books is pretty well-written and descriptive. Believe me when I say not to eat during the fight scenes because you will throw up from all the descriptive gore. The book is pretty “bone-chilling”(get it? Cause the title is Not eve- …you know I mean). The plot has some common cliches here in there, but it still keeps you on your toes (wink wink, anyone get the reference lol). A lot of times the dark plot makes the small instances of normalcy stand out and create like a push and pull situation that only sucks you more in. Characters are quite interesting and all of them are morally gray except maybe

Boulder, Reyes, and couple minor characters

The villains tend to be very morally black, and the rest characters are somewhere on the gray side of morals, which to me is a genius choice for a book in this setting. The characters and the details are used very well to portray identity and morals.

Nita imagining a scalpel to calm down, Kovid’s rules, Lorenzo and Jorge relationship

. These details really added personality and flaws to the characters. If you want a book that explores, justification for killing, pain, and other dark subjects and some supernatural gore mixed in, this might be the perfect fit for you. Beware there’s a lot of dark subjects that can be triggering for people in this book. Overall a very good read, and exciting start to the series, Can’t wait to read the other ones.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Body horror

Minor: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, and Murder

karelidz's review

dark 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? No

4.0

My first time reading a book that is included in the "horror" genre. I've been meaning to read it for a while but I was always scared it would be scary; I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it wasn't. 
I enjoyed the story, it has a lot of gore and "medical" scenes that could be disturbing to some people, but I'm not someone easily bothered by gore so that aspect wasn't an issue for me.
I also thought it would have some sort of romance aspect in it, but after reading it, it really doesn't need any romance. It wouldn't have been logical to add romance to the plot.
I'm not sure if I'll continue with the series, but overall it was a good time

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping

moonprismbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Please read this book with caution if any of the following make you uncomfortable. These are the main themes I could think of to warn about.

cw: gore, murder, torture, cannibalism, dissection, removal of body parts, kidnapping, mentions of suicide

What a gruesome, bloody, and dark story. I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading, but this was a wild one. I have never read a story so unique like this. NOTHING was held back. This book made me squirm-ish with the context, but honestly made me want to keep reading. I just kept saying to myself oh my god did that just happen?! It was so insane and crazy!! Really was a great read if you like these types of stories. The fantasy aspect of the story was really fascinating and I hope we learn more about going forward in the series. 

I loved that we were reading this story from the pov of who you could say is the villains. This was their story and there was no heroes in this. It was interesting reading a story this way. We rarely see villain povs in YA. 

Nita and Kovit are so unapologetic for their life choices. They love what they do and there was no denying that. Each of them are interesting characters and I enjoyed following them on their escape from pure hell. 

I’m curious to see what happens next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Murder

kennie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

abception's review against another edition

5.0

Jesus Christ, this was fucked up. I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism