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- Content warnings: Suicide, Violence, Gore, Body horror, Death, Death of loved one, Trauma, Grief, Mental illness, Captivity, Self-harm
Beautiful Brutal Bodies
by Linda Cheng
Book 2 in Gorgeous Gruesome Faces
A stunningly grotesque sapphic folk horror that weaves East Asian mythology into a haunting story of fame, family curses, and forbidden love. Lyrical prose that will live in your mind long after the last page.
goodreads 3.58/5 130 ratings
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A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length336 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice1/5 · Tension / anticipation focus
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Childhood friends
- F/F
- Slow burn
- Low
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Book hangover
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- Friends to lovers
- Emotional / loving
- The angst delivered
- Protective love interest
- Tension
- Cathartic release
- Forbidden love
- Anticipation
- Longing glances
- Touch starvation
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Coastal / island / beach
- Contemporary
- Monsters
- Bodyguard/protection detail
- Manor house / estate
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- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Other
- Hidden past revealed
- Secret power
- Healing romance
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- High
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- Performer
- Sapphic
- Eerie
- Lush
- Outcast/loner
- Asian MC
- Gothic
- Survivor
- Asian love interest (LI)
- Atmospheric
- BIPOC MC
- Intense
- BIPOC love interest (LI)
- Mysterious
- Immersive
- Dramatic
- Heartbreaking
- Forbidden desire
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 336 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book