Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

96 reviews

twistykris's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

An absolutely enchanting, magical book about portals into other worlds and the blatant racism, sexism, and classism of early 1900s America, all wrapped into two love stories. I loved so many of the characters in this and especially admired January's voice as a mixed-race young woman growing up in a rich household without her parents. 

I switched back and forth between a physical copy and the audiobook and the story-within-a-story was fantastic, if a little confusing in the audiobook (at first it was hard to tell when the inner story was starting and ending).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Self harm, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, and Grief

athryn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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

3.5

This took a while to get to the actual adventure part, which was where it really took off for me. Before that, there's quite a bit of trauma to go through, and I will say that it made it so I had to put it down quite a bit. I thought the interspersing of the two narratives to be pretty interesting. I thought this was a good spin on a concept done by a few other people recently.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War

angeldevoursliterature's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

natashaleighton_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Self harm, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny and Racism

Minor: Gaslighting

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Racism, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

hecubatohim's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

chris_reads's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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: Racism, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Colonisation

bluejay21's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Xenophobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

malley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Self harm, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Gun violence and Pregnancy

sparklefarm's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Alix Harrow really knows how to surround me in a beautiful story, emotionally destroy me, and then knit me back together again, full of hope. I loved getting lost in The Once and Future Witches and The Ten Thousand Doors of January was no different. I listened to the audiobook (stellar, by the way) and yelled in my car more times than I have for any other book, I think. The characters are complicated and imperfect, and you root for them nonetheless. At times the plot was "predictable" but I didn't care because the storytelling itself was beautiful. The journey was enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Blood