Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

16 reviews

bookwitch934's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Racism, Gore, Genocide, Body horror, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Death, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

This book was really good, but super heavy.

wheatstalk's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

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

4.0

Really great adventure and detailed setting/environment that’s understandable and easily immersed in. I loved the African spirituality magic system and the depictions of the characters, their powers and the land around them. The language is so visual it makes sense the series is becoming a movie.

However, the character development felt like a speed run. No one was fleshed out as being more than their trauma and relationships felt surface level. There’s also a lot of repetitive lines and some visual descriptions, though poetic, did lose me a bit. I hope the second book focuses more on female friendship as I really enjoyed the near last chapter hair braiding scene. Also, the only respectable man in the book is ironically the pickpocketer, every other guy sounds clinically insane at times (cough, Inan, cough).

Still overall a great book and if you pick this up just get the second while you’re at it.

TW on genocide & violent oppression. Brief body mutilation/scarring near the end which felt most impactful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

spacecadelliot's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

batwinggoth's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Kidnapping, Murder, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Self harm, Slavery, Stalking, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing, Confinement, and Police brutality

lj_parkinson's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, and Hate crime

kayo32's review

adventurous sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Body horror