Reviews tagging 'Blood'

All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien

6 reviews

sangsmiles's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, and War

helloitskate's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: War, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Blood and Addiction

internationalreads's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cursing, Violence, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Classism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Vomit, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Death

kellyung's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Gore, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Blood

em111111ly's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

really liked this one! refreshing to read a crime book that incorporated so much of the main character's life and the influence that her culture had on herself, those around her, and on solving the mystery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, and Murder

kinta's review

challenging emotional mysterious fast-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

5.0

looking at the premise of this book you’d think its just an average mystery - but oh my goodness it is so much more than that. it’s a story of belonging, loss, culture, addiction and family.

set in the 90’s in Australia’s heroin capital, Cabramatta, the novel primarily follows Kay and her uncovering of details and events that occurred on the night her younger brother Denny was murdered. straight-a student and quiet, his peers are baffled by his sudden and gruesome death on the night of his formal. this book is perfectly paced and dips into the perspectives of witnesses of the murder. 

my favourite excerpt: 

There is no way for me to tell her that we’ve lost so much more - more than time with our parents, more than time with each other. There is no way for me to tell her that the loss began well before we were born, that our parents had loss, and our ancestors had loss - loss of home, loss of place, loss of self, loss of life - and we were born with that loss, carried it, burdened by it, part of it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Death

Minor: Blood and Murder