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Royal Blood by Aimée Carter

8 reviews

haleybre's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Death, and Bullying

beckyremillard's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Drug use, Bullying, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Suicide

lilyyyy_b's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious relaxing 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Suicide, Cursing, Dementia, Mental illness, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Classism, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Outing

katewheels13's review

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, and Murder

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

The media and the family of the royal bastard gang up to make her life hell, but she gets through it. Once a potential love interest is killed, who is the killer, and who's trying to frame her?
This book was a good mix of dark/emotional and funny. I wish there were more of the fun parts and less of the dark and emotional parts. The book's first half felt more like a contemporary romance, but the second half was more of a thriller. I would have preferred less romance. 
Overall a pretty good book that covered some hard topics. I really appreciated the compassion and understanding of the author for the mother who struggled with schizophrenia. I also liked that she made sure to have a part in there that corrected the assumptions of some of the general public that people with schizophrenia are violent, when in fact they're more likely to be the victim than the perpetrator of violence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Bullying, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, and Child death

Minor: Cursing, Pregnancy, and Xenophobia

xompeii's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

Royal Blood is a fast paced story with lots of twists and turns that hook you from the very first page. I wasn’t planning on reading this right away but I started reading it in the bookstore and just had to take it home with me. I loved almost every minute of it. They characters felt real, and the secrets we got to see were interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Bullying

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment and Grief

Evan is drugged in an attempt for one of the characters to sexually assault her. She escapes. Her abuser dies after.

imstephtacular's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, and Mental illness

Moderate: Ableism, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Infidelity

Minor: Bullying, Murder, and Blood

drraytay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death, Alcohol, and Vomit

Minor: Bullying