Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Strange Hymn by Laura Thalassa

29 reviews

heybethrenee's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

3.5

This was pretty good! The middle was a little slow but things really picked up by the end! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Gore, Physical abuse, Body horror, Classism, Death, Kidnapping, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Rape

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Slavery, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

Where some second books have the dreaded second book syndrome (aka they’re just filler), A Strange Hymn managed to avoid it. The development of both plot and characters is smooth and rather impressive.

I truly enjoyed the reintroduction to Temperance. Other than the fade to black spicy scenes,

it is an excellent middle book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol and Rape

dkgreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Slavery

helpme71's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Slavery and Xenophobia

dinkumbird's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.5

This is the second book and the Bargainer series and I don’t think it quite lives up to the first book. It is fairly slow-paced and my brain often wandered to other things while I was reading. I will say that there was a fair amount of world building. Des takes Callie on a tour of his realm and all the different islands that he commands. She also takes a trip to the Flora realm so we as readers get a slightly more comprehensive look into the different realms. Over the coarse of the book Des starts revealing more about his past which I really enjoyed reading and it answered some questions that were brought up in the first book. This book does not fix any of the problems with Temper’s character. She has the potential to be a more dynamic character, but she is still just a side character who pops up on occasion to help Callie and then fades back into the background again. I was really hoping she would have a bigger role in this book. Overall I thought this book was ok. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood and Death of parent

mghrt06's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, and Sexual content

juliette_95's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-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? Yes

3.5

The first half is really slow but the second half is fast! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Slavery, and Blood

Moderate: Rape, Cursing, Sexual assault, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, and Death