Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Låt den rätte komma in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

65 reviews

teaandtales1's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This is a really well-written book that I did not care for. There's dark and bleak and then there's this book. As an avid horror reader it takes a lot to make me want to skim certain parts of a book because it's just *too much,* but I felt the need to do that on multiple occasions. There was just so much in this book that didn't really need to be there, and in the process I felt the story dragging me down further and further into its well of darkness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Murder, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Suicide, Sexual violence, Addiction, and Drug use

kyliesh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

A book that I’ll truly think about for years to come and possibly a rare reread one day! I was completely immersed in the story and found that the author wrote several characters in such a way that you understood them through their complications. Very well written, intriguing, and unique.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Bullying, and Pedophilia

athompson0429's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

This is a great coming-of-age horror that has a lot of interesting characters.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Gore, Pedophilia, and Toxic relationship

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Blood, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Alcoholism, Animal death, Car accident, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Trafficking

Minor: Racism, Homophobia, Cancer, and Death of parent

Also contains scenes of genital mutilation and substance abuse.

mafaichney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Suicide, Animal death, Pedophilia, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Xenophobia

c0rpsekat's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Excrement, Torture, and Animal death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Bullying, and Animal death

kaanda's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

Extremely dark in so many ways, but fantastic at holding tension. Truly horrific.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Fatphobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

mccalab's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcoholism, Rape, Pedophilia, Bullying, Addiction, Child abuse, Self harm, and Blood

Minor: Trafficking

rocketsaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

0.5

Not a bad book per se, but so wildly outside of what I want to read more of I cannot let the Storygraph algorithm think I liked it. Finished our of pure spite. Incredibly fucked up, and if that's your thing you're gunna love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Excrement

amoremeg's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.75

This book was hard to get through. The dialogue was difficult to follow and often felt jumpy or truncated or stilted. I believe (I hope) there was some elegance lost in the translation. There are no winners. I don't know if any of the characters are actually good people. Maybe some are trying but it feels like the impulse to act out always wins, the impulse to not communicate always wins. There are so many irrelevant characters who did not need names and backstories- they were only introduced at all to bear witness to some moment, to be a third person perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Excrement