Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

12 reviews

breamfish1138's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

Started reading this because I wanted a nostalgia hit, thinking it would be a blast back to my childhood. Ended up questioning everything at 1:15 at night. Highly recommended if you like grimdark/dystopia.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Violence, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Classism, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Misogyny, Gun violence, Mental illness, War, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, Racism, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

This is bleak AF, particularly

the ending, which is heartbreaking and feels downright apocalyptic.

add_a_little_spook's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Excrement, War, Xenophobia, Classism, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery and Kidnapping

Minor: Gaslighting

chriswaldron15's review

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.5

So they killed a character towards the end of this book ,

killed the dog

and I could tell it was meant to be an big emotional moment, but then I asked my self "What did this character do before this? Why does their death matter? Why did their action matter again?" And I couldn't really answer any of these. Then they killed more characters, and I just asked the same questions again, with the same lack of answers. I'm pretty sure the book would have ended roughly the same without the actions of our two main characters, or even our 5 or so side characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Torture

librariancollections's review

adventurous funny sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, War, Animal death, and Violence

merlucito's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

 This was a fun and nostalgic adventure. Honestly, I'm a little bias because I watched the movie a few months ago because of Robert Sheehan and loved the world and the characters so much that I wanted to read more about them, and also because they never made the other movies I wanted to know how the story continues. So... I loved Tom. And Hester.

Katherine was cute, and her ending hurt, I wasn't expecting it. And also Dog, my god, that was sad, poor thing, he deserved better.

The plot wasn't a big thing for me, but I still enjoyed, but honestly what I enjoyed the most was the ride, the adventure, the traveling and knowing how different parts of the world adapted. I eager to keep going with the series. It's a nice break from adult epic fantasy and sci-fi. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Slavery

k_galloway's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, War, Emotional abuse, Classism, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Blood

Minor: Slavery

laurine_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death, and Murder

goldendreams's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Excrement

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

lovely_lisa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence