Reviews tagging 'Blood'

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

57 reviews

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This whole novel feels like a fever dream, the main character even says so. As a chronically ill person, who often experiences fever dreams (I'm somewhat of an expert on the subject), I can't help but agree. Let's look at similarities:

1. Did this feel almost like a normal dream (fae characters, human girl who's REALLY good at painting, everyone's royal)? Yes.

2. Did it also feel just a bit weird (ugly glamours, blood = pretty flowers??)? Yes.

3. Was it still more on the fun dream side than the nightmare one? Yes. Will be able to tell friends & family about it.

4. Will I forget about it very soon? Yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Alcoholism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Body horror

Minor: Grief

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror and Death

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

macliffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

Uses a lot of tropes, but if you like those tropes like I did it I’d perfectly charming. A great palate cleanser. Like Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries meets The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Death, Grief, Body horror, and Blood

laurenevlyn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

The amount of times I was giggling and blushing throughout this book is actually insane. I thoroughly enjoyed An Enchantment of Ravens and had so much fun reading it. I definitely agree with my favorite booktuber, Caricanread, who says that this book is written like a fairytale. Truer words have never been spoken. The main part I enjoyed about this book was the romance. It was extremely fast-paced yet very believable and well done, which is a hard combination to achieve. Rook is the love of my life and Isobel made a wonderfully clever protagonist (and their chemistry is amazing as I said earlier)! All in all a wonderful book that I very much recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, and Animal death

thatbookbitch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Death, Vomit, and Death of parent

puddleshoes's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

r3ader's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Blood

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Vomit

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

In terms of sheer enjoyment of the storytelling, this 5 stars. But there's not quite enough explanation about the backstory of the fairfolk for me. Like I don't know how they become fairfolk- is it sexual reproduction? Humans turned into them? 

And if none of them can really feel true human emotions, how can any of them fall in love with a human? And what happens to Aster or the hunter?

I think this needs to be a duology to fit the amount of answer I need. Isobel doesn't need to be 17 and I really wish she wasn't bc of the ending. She could be 21 or 22 and still be the exact same character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

The descriptions of rot and decomposition are detailed, grotesque, and very very well done.. They make you see the awful images so clearly. It's impressive but if you're squeamish like me, just know that going in.

shadereads's review

adventurous hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death

rpg_gf's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood