Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The One by John Marrs

29 reviews

lucyyybee's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

4.5

Definitely a page turner with a lot of surprises. I enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexism, and Death of parent

themoodreader's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

roseschlumpf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Murder

readingwithmeredith's review against another edition

Unexpected gore and detailed serial killer info, couldn’t push through because it was too graphic. Should have read the TW before reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

What a spectacular, brilliantly creative piece of writing. I couldn’t put it down and fell asleep reading it after keeping myself up way too late on a work night, that good. There are a multitude of storylines for varying characters and relationships, all centering around the universal “truth” that, in this world, there is one perfect match for everyone on earth and it’s genetically determined. Just send in a DNA sample and await your results. Simple, right? Far, far from it. Absolutely riveting, I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

Edited to add: this is sci-fi, and the science written here is obviously not sound. If you’ll be bothered by the scientific inaccuracies of the central element here then skip this, otherwise have fun pretending it’s real :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

franklola'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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

taria's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

marchhare89's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Vomit, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

nahtehreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

Loved/hated the multiple storyline’s  because when a plot twist happened you had to read the other storyline’s before you got back to the one that interested you but it also created suspense. A lot of plot twists which were unexpected which is definitely what you want in a psychological thriller!! 

Loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, and Kidnapping

I honestly loved Christian’s storyline and how he fell in love with a police officer. It’s bloody ironic