Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass

9 reviews

peckreadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Grief, Medical content, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Death

Minor: Blood and Cancer

miafromorchardstreet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Vomit, Terminal illness, Child death, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Grief

applesodaperson's review

dark sad fast-paced

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

4.25

The ending had me staring at the wall in shock.

Read from the Provo library.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Blood and Suicide

helenastinks's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, and Child death

sorryviolet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Child death, Death, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Vomit, Blood, and Terminal illness

charliedezeeuw's review

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism

nahochacon's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

Entiendo que no hay trama y que es un libro que solo existe y te pone en un tiempo y espacio. La verdad había momentos confusos y puede que sea reflejo del mismo personaje principal, pero solo me sentí como una viajera que podía sentirse mal por lo que pasaba al personaje principal. Me gustó la cruda realidad con la que se trata el libro y creo que es más como el reflejo de alguien hundiéndose poco a poco— una pieza que promueve dar rostro a una realidad más común—, creo que al final es cierto que todos necesitamos un tiempo lejos de nuestra cotidianidad.
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Tiene como 6 meses que leí este libro y puedo decir en retrospectiva que es un libro crudo y honesto. Una experiencia más que una forma de entretenimiento. Solo que tienes que estar en el humor adecuado. Me acordé de este libro y su personaje encontrándome en una situación de hartazgo y cansancio similar. Si bien no todos entenderemos en el momento, llegará el día donde algo te recuerde este libro. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Death, and Medical content

mariaeileen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt

erenrinren's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

Even after finishing Rest and Be Thankful, I am still unsure of the point it was trying to make, if there even was a point to make. Sure, the prose was gorgeous at times as well as the ominous, unflinching suspense of something about to break, however, I feel this book could have benefited from being perhaps being longer and more fleshed out.

One of the things I surprisingly enjoyed about Rest and Be Thankful was the most humdrum, unexciting parts. Seeing Laura as a pediatric nurse going about her day in a sense of longing to normalcy. I think often what this story lacked was a proper descent of Laura's mind. I felt so confused at times, wondering what was actually happening or what was memory, hallucination, disassociation. Although I did feel confused, I did enjoy Laura as the main character, but I wished there was more to her than being consumed by fatigue and madness. 

This is definitely more of a short story or novella than a full novel, which wasn't exactly what I was expecting from this when I decided to request it. It also falls a little on the disappointing side.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child death, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief