Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

19 reviews

itsjustgrumpy's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

My love for the wendigo / skinwalker tale has always been immense. That is no different here. Mimicking people physically and vocally, attempting to puppet and control. This book is creepy as fuck, man. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Vomit, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Stalking, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death

hkveit's review

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit and Gore

Moderate: Blood and Cursing

Minor: Child death

bbelitz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, and Vomit

nutmegandpumpkin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Note: i listened to the audiobook and definitely recommend going this route
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I really really enjoyed this book!! So unsettling and spooky from the beginning but not TOO much that it feels like there’s nothing left to discover or anticipate. You can definitely feel the passion and love the author put into this work.
The only thing is that I feel like it was a tad too long and Part 4 could have been significantly shorter (it felt like it dragged jusy a bit in some areas of this part). However, this wasn’t bad enough for me to dock the rating.

So while not perfect,  my enjoyment of this book is really what drove me to give it 5 stars. Anything less would feel disingenuous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Vomit

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, and Violence

Minor: Gore

nnylelocin's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Child death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Vomit, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Cursing

amaranth_wytch's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, Gore, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Pregnancy, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

_terah_hansen_'s review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, and Gore

kaileet's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Gore, Blood, Death, and Grief

alexisgarcia's review

tense medium-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

if i would’ve known the author wasn’t an indigenous individual, i wouldn’t have read this and recommend that you don’t read this. in terms of the plot, the beginning and middle are pretty good, but the ending is awful. the author also uses indigenous characters, history, folklore, etc. to further the story/plot for the white characters and then proceeds to kill off the indigenous characters??? only for the white characters who caused all of the problems for the now dead indigenous characters to walk away safe and happy? at the end of the book the author goes to speak on the exploitation of indigenous voices and stories but does that exact thing in the book he just wrote??? it almost feels like a joke.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racism, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Violence, and Animal death

janbee's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Vomit