Reviews tagging 'Blood'

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

63 reviews

tifftastic87's review

dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

 It took me a minute to decide if this was a 5 ⭐️. In the end because I had to think about it, it's not. But it's close. 

I really loved how the characters interact, especially Easton and Hob the horse. I like the simple use of pronouns woven into a made up foreign language and how the culture is heavily featured in Easton's character. I loved that there was an English woman who was a mycologist as one of the unlikely heroes. 

This was a fun story and I found myself wishing for more.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Gore and War

Minor: Vomit

karatics's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal death, Chronic illness, Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Confinement

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

cady_sass's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Wow, this is not what I expected at all! It’s really short but really effective. Gross and weird and spooky and all the right things. I can’t give it a full 5 stars because I don’t care for the ambiguous ending, but I can’t be more specific because the book is so short and everything would be a spoiler. Secondarily I don’t really understand the purpose of creating new pronouns (va/van) because it was NOT explained properly and made it difficult to follow as they used them sporadically. Otherwise, love it. And I’m a sucker for a great cover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Murder, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Drowning, supernatural

jokehelldo's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Animal cruelty, Murder, and War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

laneysix's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Animal death

sinead_kingsburgh207's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, and Gore

annact's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book has it all... gender fuckery... sentient fungi...

So much fun. Imagery that will stick with me for awhile. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

whatcassiedid's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

5.0

Oh my god this was so fucked up in the best way. I'm not familiar with the source material but having looked it up after reading, this is definitely better. So spooky and atmospheric and reminiscent of Mexican Gothic, which I also loved

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Blood, and Death

maresuju's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Terminal illness, Gore, Blood, and War

Minor: Murder, Confinement, and Sexism

sammirosewater's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Death, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Torture, Terminal illness, Violence, and Stalking