Reviews tagging 'Gore'

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

151 reviews

willontheinternet's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

The world-building, the character development, the imagery and the detail were all phenomenal in this book. Sure, sometimes it's slow and I question if it had to be 800 pages, but I enjoyed reading this in three days.

Looking forward to the next book in the series whenever it comes out. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

iloponis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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

3.5

game of thrones but for the girls and the gays

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

niclbarton'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lethukhanyile's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Blood

Moderate: Grief

brittanyboston18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Outing, and Alcohol

snoogler's review against another edition

lighthearted tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

cpratreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense 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? No

4.75

I loved this book! It was wonderful, and characters were wonderful to read about, and the way the POVs were written was interesting. 

4.75/5 only because I won't read it again 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Miscarriage, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

religious intolerance

verafogel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The complexity of the world building in this book goes beyond anything that I've read before and it was breathtaking. To the different places to the relationships between regions it felt so realistic and epic. 
Of course I fell in love with all the characters, specially Ead. She brought a new perspective to the history of this world and was able to show how history can we coerced over time to fit a certain interests of a few. I also loved her patience with everyone that was ignorant to the hole story, it's remarkable how she didn't think less of them as individuals even when they didn't share her beliefs. 

 
Niclays is the only character that didn't steal my heart or even my sympathy. His story was sad without question but I never forgave him for manipulating Tané and basically thinking about himself for so long. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and War

heatsab's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Miscarriage

Moderate: Violence and Religious bigotry

Minor: Gore

cstein's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

3.5

Could benefit from additional and repeat explanations of various imagined words, a large cast of characters and their connections to one another, and the histories and geographies of several fictional countries. Some relationships and events (specifically, what should have been the climatic battle) were more or less convincingly fleshed out. Nonetheless, an engrossing escapist read that kept my interest for weeks.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol