Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

24 reviews

thereadaholic's review against another edition

dark inspiring 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

4.75

This book was really good , Luca was very thoughtful in my opinion but I hated one thing

the fact that he cheated on her

that trope is one of my most hated tropes literally hate it with passion but I'm glad aria was able to put a stop towards that. Other than that this book is a greate read and it's easy and quick fast paced yet so comforting and just a really good general read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, Child abuse, Gun violence, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcohol and Death of parent

rosereadsalot's review against another edition

4.0

This book was so fast paced and I flew through it! I can’t wait to see the other sisters get their own stories and I’m about to binge the rest of the series.

However, this book has the cheating trope!! It would have been 5⭐️ otherwise… but I hated the cheating and I hated how they talked about the girl after it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Vomit, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and War

pondinea's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Death, Murder, Violence, Torture, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Homophobia and Pedophilia

grenoblegirl's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

iemilia's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

2.0

This book was ok. 
The cheating part just wasn’t it and there was barely any grovelling from Nico, he basically said he won’t cheat again and they were all happy couple soon after

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

hannibanani29's review

dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Suicide, Pregnancy, Grief, and Toxic relationship

lilygrace27's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Cursing, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity and Death

shana7x's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, and Blood

samflowerv6's review against another edition

The lines of consent were so blurred and I just can’t get over how much I didn’t like Luca. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Classism, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

lilwanderingpages's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Rating update on March 10th, 2022:
4.25 to 4.75
I'll keep what I said because I continue agreeing with everything BUT I've been thinking about the rating of this book because I'm reading of the books in the series and now that I just finished "Bound by Vengence" I can no longer keep the old rating. Now it's 4.75, I think there are only two or three books left so let's see how it'll turn out (I'm hoping for more Aria and Luca).

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Well, I've read the book already but when the audiobook appeared as a suggestion I was just like "why not?" and I don't regret a thing.

I'm growing used to audiobooks and I'm loving it. I don't know if it's because I read the book before listening but I feel like I liked it better this time.

The thing is: this book will never get five stars from me because I just HATE one part of it and I can't pretend it's not there when I'm rating it (even though I do it throughout the rest of the book).

The fact that he cheated on her makes me sick.

While I'm writing this, I already started listening to "Luca Vitiello" - bound by honor by Luca's pov - doesn't change much about what he did because I understood what he meant even without knowing about his side on this (I'll write more about that when I finish that one). 

All of this is just to say that there is no good reason for cheating. Hell, there's no REASON at all to cheat and make be on the cheater's side

  (I started a disclaimer but I just don't feel like it rn). 

 

Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles - reviewed:

 
0.5 - Luca Vitiello:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/57f24b82-8331-460a-bd4d-ae02fc323861
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4561568230

1.0 - Bound by Honor:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/eb670dd1-294d-4e23-9bab-bc9c11aef33f
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4558103572

2.0 - Bound by Duty:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a71e2654-573c-4d41-a224-363bbfb62ba0
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3021719736

3.0 - Bound by Hatred:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8e3fc6be-670e-4ae3-8bf1-eba71c361dcd
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4578787289

4.0 - Bound by Temptation:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e0ad773e-86e3-46fc-a250-df3cc60c318b
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4585687182

5.0 - Bound by Vengeance:
TSG - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/902ff414-f764-429f-b3a2-dfcd8fd35d0b
Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4593389597 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, Confinement, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse