Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye

44 reviews

samjdoe's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Sexual violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Grief, and Violence

kaylamoran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

4.75

Wow.

This book was nothing like I expected, and I loved every moment.  It reminded me a bit of the Poppy War at times, which is one of my favourite fantasy series.

The pacing was perfect.  Sloane was so well developed, so human despite everything she goes though and every awful thing she has to do.  Her moments of selfishness were so human, and its nice to read a protagonist for whom self preservation is more important than morality.  The story was so well crafted, and the twist at the end caught me totally off guard.  Overall, I thought this book was brilliant.

The only reason this isn't 5 stars is because a few words felt overused in descriptions.  "Bleeding" (as in to replace a swear word, like the f word) and bastard come to mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Self harm and Cultural appropriation

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Blood, Classism, Toxic friendship, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, and War

mikaelaandherbooks's review

I do feel like an outlier on this, but I could not stick with it. I appreciate the message the author is looking to get across but it was too trauma-packed for me and the pacing couldn’t keep me in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death, War, and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault

shadesofdivine's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Sexual violence, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Child death, Murder, Colonisation, Genocide, Blood, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

peeko99's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

4.5

Inconclusive ending, hopefully a sequel?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual assault, Rape, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

remaininlullaby's review

unfortunately, nothing in this made sense to me. the second it got interesting, the protag did smth again that completely contradicted what her inner monologue said before. also, how much trauma do you want your 15yo to have, gdi

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, War, and Torture

Moderate: Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Self harm, and Slavery

Minor: Vomit

bookishmikay's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Classism

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

icelandicbookworm's review

4.0

I have had this one on my shelf since I got it in a fairyloot box last year. I have been seeing great things about it on tiktok and I'm glad I finally read it. Should have read it sooner! 
Recommend giving this book a try
Please read trigger warnings before you read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Child death, Blood, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Torture

3arth2kaye's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, War, Death, and Blood