Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

140 reviews

mftraveller3500's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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INCREDIBLE writing (can feel everything down to the minutia), but a feels like we are seeing a refraction of the world - a more violent and hard and hopeless version where unimagined cruelty is the norm. Second person narration brought me in - it really elevated the stories on stories in stories that are woven into this, and the theatre provided a container that was incomparable. SUCH incredible characters, and the way it all comes together in the end???? PHEW

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

saraellington_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Cannibalism

chris_reads's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual content, Violence, Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Murder

Minor: Child death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts

beetrootbulbs's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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: No

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I am at a loss of words to describe this book. I haven't read a book this good since...I don't even know.
I feel something moved inside me. 

I will absolutely check out the author's other book(s) 


Wow. 
Just wow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Classism

engineeredediting's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective 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: Complicated

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Unlike any fantasy I’ve ever read. The worldbuilding is phenomenal, though it takes a bit (~15%) to get into and really grasp. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder

crossbelladonna's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder

katie_abdilla's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

marissa3's review against another edition

adventurous

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood

Moderate: Cannibalism

welfin's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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It was a very unique Story which was written in a gripping way by the author. I really liked his way of story telling. His characters had depth and even though the story was mystical and fantastical they all had relatable aspects to their personality and motivs. 
The only thing that put me off a little was the level of violence, torture and their graphic description, but that I think is more something that is not personally for me and not the fault of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Murder, War

Minor: Rape

i_aletheia's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Cannibalism

Moderate: Ableism