Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Book of Night by Holly Black

36 reviews

multiplyoctopi's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Child abuse

dixiecarroll's review

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

Cons: put me into a 2 week reading slump, was boring, written poorly (and annoyingly) Pro: I’m invested in what happens and it was very readable. Gonna go ahead and say that I won’t be recommending this torture on anyone else though. *def read cruel prince though*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

bcope84's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, Death, Gaslighting, Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Bullying, Child abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

silver_violet's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Murder, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Vomit

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

3.25

It’s a really interesting story, especially lore wise. The plot twist is exceptional. I just found the writing a bit clunky, it didn’t flow nicely for me. I also do have a hard time with moral bankrupt main characters, so if you also hate that I wouldn’t suggest. 

Low Fantasy, Romance Subplot, 1/2 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Alcohol, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Violence, Body horror, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content

maistfu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

the first half of the book was a bit boring but seeing as you get introduced to a new world with magic and all the characters it's normal. the more I read the more interesting it became and the end was well worth the wait.

the amount of different characters did give me a whiplash because I got confused quite a bit. 

charlie was kind of annoying at the beginning too but she changed my mind by fighting for vince. vince was my absolute favourite though. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Murder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Misogyny, Murder, Addiction, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Vomit, Alcoholism, Gore, Slavery, Blood, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

I have to start by saying that I really like Holly Black, and I really liked the ending of this book. 

However, I had an incredibly hard time with the first half of the book. I was confused about the magic system, and I couldn't keep track of the characters. I think part of the issue is that with working while I listened to the audiobook I didn't always catch the transitions between the current and past event chapters. To be honest it didn't hook me either in the beginning, so if I hadn't listened to the audiobook so fast I might have missed out on the second half that I really enjoyed because based on the beginning I would have DNF'd it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Gun violence, and Child death

This was a dark urban fantasy, so guns, violence, death, and gore are all very present.

thebelugaloo's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Loved the magic system, plot was good, but the ending was spoiled a little when attempting to make room for a sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gore, Incest, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Domestic abuse

caitsmythers's review

dark slow-paced

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

3.75

It took me awhile to get into this book. I think around the halfway mark is when things really picked up for me and I got into it! 

The first major twist I guessed very early in but the second twist by god did that get me! 

Charlie’s thievery skills are honestly very envious, I’m half tempted now to go and learn to pick locks and nick a few odd bits from people just to see what it takes… but also I’m too much of shitebag for that

This book is supernatural, magical, and a good ol’ mystery/thriller with some of the classic ‘who dunnit’ism thrown in. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gun violence