Reviews tagging 'Blood'

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

52 reviews

maruu_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Incest

La verdad que pensé que no me iba a gustar porque cuando lo leí en su momento no me gustó pero está bastante bueno, me gustó el avance que todos los personajes tuvieron en el libro pero más que nada el de Jace. Espero que Clary deje de agarrarsela con Maia porque sino a las piñas.

haileyzim1234's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Incest and Blood

seasalt_and_strawberries's review against another edition

fast-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? No

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Incest

ioana_26_tid's review against another edition

adventurous funny relaxing medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, Incest, Hate crime, and Gore

Minor: Child death, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder

fremzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: War, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

doggipet's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Minor: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing, and Violence

jaedia's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Blood

bookrecsbyjess's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I enjoyed this book even more than City of Bones (which I loved). 

There were some great Clary and Jace moments, but man I felt bad for Simon in a lot of this book. 

Once again, Cassandra Clare managed to throw a surprising plot twist at me. 

I thought it was cool to learn more about Clary and Jace's abilities. 

This book also had some great action scenes. 

Valentine is still a mega loser though. 

Overall, I loved this book and can't wait to read City of Glass!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Blood

evmb_c's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.75

So this was a reread for me but I definitely don’t remember the story as well as the first book so there were still a few surprises for me which was nice. 
Also knowing how the series ends up, I notice the little clues in this book that lead to a later plot twist and it is actually quite clever.
I enjoyed this book more then the 1st because you’re straight into the story, and honestly there’s action right from the start and then all the way throughout. The pace itself is also quite fast because of this.
You get to see more of the side characters which was good and you see my FAVE romance of the series start to bloom so naturally I loved that.

The main con, however, is that I really don’t like Clary, the main female character. In this book especially, she comes across quite selfish, immature and honestly whiney. I don’t like the way she interacts with certain characters and she also does one particular thing that in real life I cannot stand so it’s even worse reading about it in fiction.

Still happy to keep reading and more excited for the next books.

TW⚠️
-blood
-fighting
-injury 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

TW⚠️ -blood -fighting -injury

blakethebookeater's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Ok so this book was bad. Like baaaad. Basically it just consisted of Jace getting captured over and over and also the most insufferable incest angst for like 400 pages. The only reason this gets rounded up to a 3 star and not a 2 star from me is I thought the ending was pretty good and I can see the series getting a lot more interesting from here.

2.5/5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Hate crime, and Death