Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

50 reviews

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sammylouise's review

adventurous 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

Moderate: Blood

biancas_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

In this installment, I loved Helene's storyline the most. Her character developed so much in comparison to the first book. Besides that, it just was the most interesting and suspenseful. 
Elias' storyline, however, I didn't like at all. I just couldn't find myself being invested in it.

The whole book I was waiting for them to figure out a way for Elias to not be the Soul Catcher. They didn't but I really freaking hope that they will in the next book. I'm not mentally prepared for anything else.

Therefore, I nocked 0.25 points off my rating.

Other than that, I again was a huge fan of Tahir's writing style and I loved that she took the conflict that's been building up a notch further. I can't wait to see how everything will be resolved in the next - and last - book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Torture, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery

agustdefault's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

WOW. okay this book took me Forever to read like more than a week?? which is crazy because this is my favorite book in the series so far. it was hard to read because all of these characters i love were failing over and over again but it was amazingly written. this book is where all of the little details throughout the series come together and there were so many oh moments for me. plus the addition of helenes pov throughout the entire story!! i was hesitant about that at first but it truly added so much. i love a good not so evil villain. and harper!!!!!!!!

okay harper and helene are so cute please girl just be with him also COOK????? i knew there was something going on with her but i did not see that coming. the next book better bring my bf elias back quickly i miss him also im glad the jinn are free i felt so bad for them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Slavery, Torture, Blood, and Death of parent

kilic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chlomonte's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

my favourite book so far of the ember quartet. helene's chapters are my favourite to read n i loved all of the politicking and war, unpop opinion but i really don't care for the romantic relationships 😭 i know the yearning was meant to cause me pain but i just preferred the other aspects of the plot. the twist with cook had me gobsmacked good job miss tahir. lots of very emotional moments n i hope to see more of laia & helene bonding in the final book love my main ladies sm. eek such a good dark war torn high fantasy series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and War

jules_reads_books's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

4.5

Definitely my fave of the series so far! Full review to come

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death and Gore

Minor: Racism, Rape, and Slavery

mhayward's review

dark tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Blood

Minor: Child death

shahdhazem's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

I've finished this 3 days ago and I have been in shock quite literally. The plot is going in a very complex way and I'm just going insane. There's lots of things that I don't understand and it's just very very intense.

can we please all come to the fact that I haven't even recovered from the shock that cook is the lioness and then she's f*king dead I didn't even get to cry for her just from the overall shock!!

. Laia had a very strong character development she's literally just a very good written heroine. And as always sabaa is literally torturing everyone in the book EVEN THE SIDE CHARACTERS NO ONE SURVIVES HER EVIL!! Lastly I won't even comment on the writing stlyle or plot the whole series is just a masterpiece I can't bring myself to say anything more.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Blood and Pregnancy