Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

211 reviews

3rina's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cannibalism

erinmassey23's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Minor: Trafficking

needread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

Usually I stay away from sic-fi but I was persuaded to read this. 

And I’m glad that I did. 

It’s a very raw and real and heavy story. 

I love the concept, the dialogue, along with the clear changes characters experience. Even the inner monologues changed as time went on. Very well thought out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

surfinddog's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

Omg. This book definitely lived up to the high for me. From the beginning I was hooked and I did not expect at all how Darrow was going to change throughout the book. To be honest I was a bit disappointed how majority of the book is one event so to speak but after reading through and finishing I have cast away that thought and understand why it was like that. I felt such a rush reading this book, like a warmth coming over me throughout it. I cannot wait to continue the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Blood

rmb27's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

This book is a very dark hunger games full of vengeance, death, loads of swearing, and frequent discussion of sexual assault. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone and wish I had DNF. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and War

margarcia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Rape, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, and War

zeneszerzo's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Blood, and War

te_pa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-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

4.25

I did not expect this at all. All I new when I first picked up this book was: sci-fi from Mars and that everyone I know gave it five stars. I must say, if I knew a little bit more going into this, my rating might have been higher. 
This book is for the teens who grew up reading The Hunger Games and Divergent because the second part of the book is very reminiscent of these stories.

I really didn't expect to read about castle sieges, kids murdering each other for sport and houses fighting over who's better.

I did enjoy it, but it was not what I expected from a sci-fi book happening on Mars. 
The book was very unputdownable. Strong scenes go into even stronger more brutal ones with ease and you cannot stop reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, and Blood

Minor: Rape, Excrement, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

hcox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This is a book to invest time in. The story is slow and detailed yet it stretches over several years. I rate it 3.75 because the pacing was inconsistent; some chapters were long winded and others skipped years in a moment. Even so, the writing is excellent and the world building is unique compared to other dystopia. There are moments where the reader can connect with the challenges the protagonist is going through, rooting for his mission and there are moments you question his morals in a shattered world. It's a reflective book on clasism and the irony of climbing to the top to bring it down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kaseybereading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, War, and Classism