Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

33 reviews

flameoh's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Pedophilia and Sexual content

Minor: Death and Incest

deanchaudhri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Idk why i thought this was YA, it is most definitely not YA. Don’t really know how to describe this book. It’s gory but sensual at the same time?? Like iv never read body horror written so beautifully. Its eco-horror meets unhinged female narrative meets magical realism ?? I feel like wattpad girlies who like magical realism would love this? Idk but it was very captivating. Disappointed it was so short cuz I have many unanswered questions & I need to know the actual plot miss author had in mind cuz my theories feel wildly incorrect. V bizzare and v surreal. 

if anyone out there has read this, were samson and olivia brother and sister or not?? 😭 were they siblings who lied to their son or were they lovers having an affair that lied to ada by saying they were siblings ??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Gore, Body horror, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Child death, and Incest

Minor: Animal death and Pedophilia

mitchell_1's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Body horror, and Incest

jaswoahreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

 For a novel with such an unusual premise I don’t think that, aside from the rituals themselves, anything particularly odd happened in the novel. It was fairly tame. I have read a lot of ‘unhinged women’ lit lately, and Ada seemed fairly reasonable, aside from the whole burying her boyfriend in the ground thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Body horror

Moderate: Miscarriage and Incest

itsalina's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Gore, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death, Murder, and Child death

avisnoctua's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pregnancy, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, and Incest

Minor: Animal death

soyboi's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Body horror, and Miscarriage

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Incest

swellshark'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Incest

chach's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

What a weird fucking book. Like, I'm proud of myself for getting through it because it's more literary than I normally read for fun, but it was very odd. The author did some really interesting things stylistically, and I really enjoyed the magical realism of the book. The twists were pretty predictable, especially at the end, and it left be feeling... bereft? Adrift? The final "twist" didn't really have an impact because I called it about halfway through the book, so in the end, I guess I was just feeling a little unsatisfied. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest and Body horror