Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

96 reviews

taylorleilani's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, Death, and Murder

bookishpaula's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Grief, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Mental illness, and Murder

midnightgremlin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

Lesbians. Witchcraft. Murder. Dark Academia. What more could you possibly want? A Lesson in Vengeance is a good book. It’s filled with a diverse cast of lovable girls, discusses the difficulties behind families, queer identities, and mental health, all while holding a sense of mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Mental illness, Cursing, Murder, Vomit, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Addiction, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Abandonment, Body horror, and Suicidal thoughts

librariangeorgia's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I’d been so looking forward to reading this one. From the blurb it sounded really interesting. However, I found it to be quite average. 

 

It was slow paced, so slow that I would stop paying attention. It also seemed to jump between settings mid-chapter that I couldn’t follow where the story was at. 

 

This book tried to be too many things in one go and it just didn’t work unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Death, and Animal death

eparris's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Blood and Animal death

Minor: Grief

milly2222's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Gore, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal death and Gun violence

minary's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Classism, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Blood, Animal cruelty, Death, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Gaslighting, and Dementia

kaoralg's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abandonment and Animal death

Scene with Animal Death briefly described in Chapter 21 - Description & story spoiler:

It is revealed in when Ellis was 10, she was sent to spend the winter with her grandmother in her rural home. During a terrible snow storm that snowed them into the house and knocked out their power, the grandmother dies in her bed. It takes 3 weeks for the snow to melt, add another week for the power company to come restore the power at the house and discover young Ellis and her dead relative. During this time, Ellis ran out of food and with no other options she kills her pet rabbit and consumes it raw.

mybeevenme's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I really don't know how to rate this, maybe because I normally don't read thriller.
I also didn't really find Felicity that lovable/relatable, because she strikes me as the kind of person I'd avoid in real life because of how she treats others.
I like Ellis tho, a lot actually, but I felt like her portrayal was inconsistent, what could be due to the nature of Felicity being an unreliable narrator.
In general I feel like Felicity as a narrator was a bit too unreliable. don't get me wrong, I like unreliable narrator's, but only to a degree.
All in all if you like thriller and dark academia this definitely might be the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gaslighting, Violence, Blood, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Grief

Moderate: Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit and Forced institutionalization