Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Blood Promise by Richelle Mead

18 reviews

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

1.0

2024 (1 star): This is such a drastic turn from the first three. The first three books were a fun little YA adventure with wild dramatic twists in each one. This book features a random trip to Russia with an idealized abusive relationship. 0/10
The plot follows Rose now in Russia pursuing Dimitri but first, she meets Sydney a human alchemist and Dimitri's entire family as well as an older Russian spirit and shadow-kissed couple. I yet again think this could've been a great Sapphic bodyguard trope story but alas. This book was so frustrating as for some reason we go against all of Rose's personality traits and she becomes a drugged-up Stockholm syndrome girlie. AND YET SHE STILL LOVES HIM this is not it guys

2014 (3 stars): I really didn't like this one as much as the first three in the series. I don't know whether or not my impression of the book was effected by my stress from the school work and musical that my show is putting on or not but I really just didn't like this one. It felt wrong and was sad throughout pretty much the entire thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Murder, Rape, Kidnapping, Classism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

4.5

Rose spent so much time running in circles and getting side tracked it was annoying. Don’t expect her to see Dimitri until about 325 pages in. From there though things are intense. The nice thing about the slow beginning was there was more you learn about the vampire world in general. The ending is wild so be prepared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Addiction, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Death, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Classism and Kidnapping

joyfulfoodie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

The twist that I feared hasn’t happened (…yet?? 🙃). A twist I saw coming has, but that wasn’t terrible, it worked. There were some good surprises along the way in this one. I’m eager to finish the series and see if it wraps up the way I expect it will. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

ashleysager's review

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction

nicichels's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

vajaakirjahylly's review

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

The beginning of the book was bit slow but aften then i was just shocked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Blood

hoffmann's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

not as good as the last one, or the first one, but better than the second. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Death, Alcoholism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Self harm, Classism, and Mental illness

the_escapist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense slow-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: Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Death, Alcohol, Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Confinement

Minor: Forced institutionalization

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Kidnapping, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, and Death

tiana_king's review

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

Slow

Rose spent so much time running in circles and getting side tracked it was annoying. Don’t expect her to see Dimitri until about 325 pages in. From there though things are intense. The nice thing about the slow beginning was there was more you learn about the vampire world in general. The ending is wild so be prepared.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Classism, and Sexual content