Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

10 reviews

trintrin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

That was so lovely.

Is this the perfectest book ever? No, there are plenty of things that I think could've been handled better.

But just the fact that it put me into a reading slump for weeks because I was so scared to finish it with all those cliff-hangers, and all those insane plot-twists that mirrored or were foreshadowed in the previous books making me want to reread them,

combined with that sweet, sweet epilogue that had me giggling and kicking me feet like a five year old (WHAT DO YOU MEAN JORDAN AND DECLAN ARE MARRIED? AND ADAM AND RONAN ARE ENGAGED??????)

alone are enough for me to rate it 5 stars.

If the fact that this might be the last book ever featuring these wonderful characters and this wonderful universe influenced the rating, we're not gonna talk about it :)

I miss them already

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol, Addiction, and Cursing

softiejace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Addiction

themiscyra_anna's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Self harm, Car accident, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Confinement

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

These characters, with all their spikes and petals and stardust and war crimes and dreams and quirks and defaults and angst have my whole heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

theespressoedition's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-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

The moment I finished reading Greywaren, I had to just sit there with my thoughts for a few minutes. Okay, if I'm being honest, I wasn't just sitting with my thoughts--I was sitting with my TEARS because this book absolutely WRECKED ME (and I loved every minute of it).

Maggie Steifvater, you deserve a standing ovation for this grand finale to the world of The Raven Cycle. I'm not sure what I was anticipating, but when am I ever really anticipating anything in particular when it comes to this universe? Up is twenty minutes from now and backwards is yesterday and somehow in this world, it makes sense (or it doesn't but we accept it and move on). I'm not sure I'll ever be able to fully process everything I read in this series, but I enjoyed myself thoroughly and can't wait to read it again.

The beauty of Ronan and Adam's relationship will never be matched. Oh yes, I said it. <spoilers>It's hard for me to ever imagine something topping how absolutely precious their reunion was, despite the reunion being Adam's conscious meeting Ronan's... existence?</spoilers> I still don't even understand it entirely but it was emotional and heartfelt and wonderful in every way imaginable.

This book truly was about The Lynch Brothers. While we had our fair share of Carmen Farooq-Lane, Jordan Hennessey, and Jordan Hennessey, the emphasis was entirely on Ronan, Declan, and Matthew. This was something I absolutely adored. It took me all of TRC and the first half of Call Down the Hawk to appreciate these characters, but once I did, I fell hard for them and was thankful for the depth of their characters in this one and all the phenomenal development. I never thought I'd love such chaotic, confusing characters--but here we are!

I took my time reading this masterpiece of a book because I really never wanted it to end. Part of me was tempted to pick up The Raven Boys just to start from square one again immediately after finishing. Part of me wants to give this one time to settle into my soul and keep affecting me for weeks (or even months). One thing I know for sure is that while it may have taken me longer to get to this universe of books than it did for so many others, it didn't impact me any less. I'm thankful for these beautiful, bizarre words and how they've touched my life.

5/5 stars for the entire trilogy! I will definitely be reading it again (and again and again)...

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gun violence and Suicide

smithreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Kidnapping

bookswithian's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Alcohol, Grief, Blood, Abandonment, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Murder

botanicalprofanity's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and Gun violence

marleywrites's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent and Injury/Injury detail

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail