Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente

5 reviews

gondorgirl's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Classism, Gaslighting, Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

euphemiajo's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Death, Violence, and Bullying

Minor: Blood, Cancer, and Abandonment

triley's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Blood, Drug use, Violence, Animal death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Cancer, and Fire/Fire injury

aardwyrm's review

challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Stylized, surrealist weirdness makes excellent set-dressing for the relentlessly serious. Nothing about the novella makes anything like sense, but it's very pretty and at the same time gruesome, which is the best kind of pretty.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Infertility, and Mental illness

emusing's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Sexual content