Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson

41 reviews

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

corruptednatz's review

tense fast-paced

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

2.5

It’s an okay book. It felt short because there was only one setting, the castle. The main focus was the relationship developing between Jak and Marius. Sadly the characters were bland, and uninteresting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

The spicy scenes were kind of good. I was shocked how he describes Marius’ body. Whew

bergha1998's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

3.5

For Jak’s whole life his has been trained to kill the beast that has consumed all of his coven’s power except his. Now it is time to meet the vampire Marius, except his story becomes much different than the one Jack was told. 

MLM romance, Blood Kink, 2 1/2 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Blood, Violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

prophecyerised's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

The only thing I'm gonna say about it is this: go to page 207 (if you have paperback) and read Marius with Count Cholula's voice. It will live rent free in your brain forever. Ah. Ah. Ah.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood

sonovahades's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Finally read my first Ben Alderson book! And after all the hype i have heard, i gotta say I LOVE IT! i love the way it's written (although it took me a while to get used to the first person pov), i love the characters and i love the angst and the happiness and the smut as wellll yay

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting

secretlybatman4's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Blood, Death, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

ekmoore11's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual content

dododenise's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

I can’t say this was a good book. The plot was painfully predictable and if you asked me to define Jack’s personality to you, I wouldn’t know how because it felt so inconsistent. 
However, this book cared about the chemistry between Marius and Jack. And boy, chemistry they had. Pretty much right from the beginning I knew they had the fire for an amazing enemies-to-lovers relationship. 
I enjoyed myself thoroughly reading this and exploring the possibilities of a gay beauty and the beast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

aehmyers's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

I am not a fan of myth retellings. That’s pretty much my only qualm with this book. This is a pretty interesting retelling of beauty and the beast, full of horror and spice. And the ending is quite the twist, too. I’m just the type of person that cringed at every familiar trope. I almost quit reading at the library. It’s a testament to the writing that I finished it. If you enjoy books inspired by beauty and the beast and horror, this is a great book. It’s just not my cup of tea. But I hope it’s true fans find it and show it all the appropriate love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Minor: Suicide attempt

azrieldds's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

It was cute I think
I like the pace at which the story progressed and the satisfying ending ngl
Fuck Jak's mum man fr
Horrible
Would've been a cool plot twist if she was the original woman
But yeah 
Wouldn't reread but a nice one time read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts