Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

7 reviews

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.25

This was a good ending for the entire series. I really liked how the whole world/plot came together, it was super detailed and interesting. I wish we got more of the characters but I don't think that was the point, more about humanity/civilisation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child death, Medical content, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Violence, War, Murder, Slavery, and Torture

fromjuliereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective 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

What a finale. Wow.
I absolutely adored Foundryside and while Shorefall had some pacing issues, it was still a great book. But this book. This finale. Absolutely fantastic.

It took me a little bit to get into because I read Shorefall about 2 years ago AND this book takes place 8 years after the end of Shorefall. As soon as I figured that out, I was fully invested. Getting back to these characters, this world. Robert Jackson Bennett writes such a complex world with one of the most unique magic systems I've ever encountered, and these complicated characters that you can't help but love. There were so many aspects to this finale that played out so perfectly. I laughed, I cried, and while I figured out one mystery, there was something in some final reveals that I didn't see comint at all. This is the kind of finale that I truly love.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Child death, Blood, War, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Toxic familial relationships, self-sacrifice

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Slavery, Torture, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, War, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

fi_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Genocide, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Grief, and Torture

Moderate: Slavery and Abandonment

lady_sharp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

I finished this book during a break at work. This turned out to be a mistake. I went through the rest of the day in a haze, hyperaware and not aware at all. I missed a turn driving home but read signs clearer than ever. I realized that finishing this book wasn't enough, I had to tell people about it, how it made me feel, how it made me think. So, here we are.

This is a book about a lot of things. Heists, magic, despair, sacrifice, technology, heroes. But inundated through every thread, poured into every nook and cranny, is what it means to be alone and what it means to be connected. How terrified we are of being alone and how joyful it is to be together and the many obstacles, pains, rewards, and wonders in between How there are some things we can't fight, many things we can, and some that we never needed to fight at all.

The ending is one of the best I've ever read, bringing everything together for sweet and bitter, exploiting its premise to its fullest to tell you about these wonderful characters and how far they've come, about the world they built and we might build too, and about humanity itself. Even though it hurt my heart, I wanted to connect, to be better, to journey forward not as a conquering hero but with all the people I love. I didn't feel the same as I did before I read it, and that is perhaps that best thing a book can do.

It's been a long ride, and I thank the author for taking me on it, and the website for letting me tell it. Love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Colonisation, Slavery, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, and Blood

rossandhissandwich's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Child death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

caidyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

I hate that this book took me so long to read. It starts out eight years after the last book and so much had changed. That threw me for a loop. Really enjoyed the ending and I definitely cried over the last line. I hope on a reread I get through it faster!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Grief