Reviews tagging 'Gore'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

154 reviews

coris_bookshelf'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? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Gore, and Death of parent

Minor: Gaslighting

razalicious's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

goldenleafbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Confinement, Classism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Colonisation, Gore, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Stalking

Minor: Pregnancy

amandam71's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

A very average romantasy book. The characters were intriguing, and the spice was well done. The plot twist was obvious, and the lore was a bit convoluted.  I couldn’t get past the typos and colloquial writing style. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, and Blood

if_books_be_the_food_of_love's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

I loved this book! Armentrout has a wonderful writing style and I was immediately drawn into both the world and the characters. There’s a decent amount of world building but it’s not overly complex once you’re into the book. 

The Maiden is selected by the Gods and from birth her life is not her own. Due to Ascend before the Gods, Poppy is resistant. She doesn’t understand what the ascension entails, nor does she want. And yet, Poppy is a not just the Maiden. She is a person; with her own desires and dreams. 

And when guard Hawke comes into her life she finds him impossible to resist. It’s forbidden to touch the Maiden. Yet the Maiden herself burns for his touch. 

When tragedy strikes the castle in the form of the Atlantians and the Craven (a vampiric race who are enemies of the Ascended, and a lesser race who no longer control their own minds and have sucumbed to blood lust), Poppy is summoned by the Queen to the capital. Hawke accompanies her, and on the way Poppy discovers he is not what he seems. 

Can she still love him when she discovers his true identity? Or is their relationship doomed from the start?

I ordered book 2 soon after starting this book as it was so good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Gore

Minor: Physical abuse

julianna_schock's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, and Body shaming

bree_h_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

0.25

What was that ending?

This book started out pretty shaky BUT I was won over by the amazing work of the narrator. She had a way of narrating things so that the banter and characters flowed in a way that the prose didn’t. I will also credit the book with the fact that Poppy felt like an 18-year-old girl scrabbling for control in her own life. The themes and exploration of them was interesting. Poppy’s character lent to these themes and it was fairly well done. Aside from that, the foreshadowing as fairly well done.

What really tanked this book for me was the last quarter of the book roughly. While it was declining slightly before the twist was revealed, that’s what destroyed the book for me. Everything about the characters and who they were felt like it vanished. Their actions stopped making sense and while I thought some changes after the reveal of the twist were well some, most didn’t. I stopped understanding Poppy and her actions. I found myself so frustrated with her and what she was doing that it tanked the book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Cursing, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual violence, Death, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Murder, Confinement, Physical abuse, Gore, and Torture

Minor: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Child death, and Child abuse

cdoubet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Bullying, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Addiction, Death, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

leticiaariana's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, and Violence

samara__don's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

I love this book hehe. Good for Poppy trying to figure out what she wants. Shes actually so tough i wanna be like her. loved poppy and ‘Hawkes’ relationship.

I was really sad when Rylan and Victor died.

I want Tawny to come backkk. Some spicy scenes. WOAH, the plot twists at the end i was not expecting but they were so good.

the way Casteel still protects her (i know its for leverage but whatever). Off to the next book for the wedding :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Gore, Blood, Cursing, and Emotional abuse