Reviews tagging 'Blood'

As irmãs Blue + brindes by Coco Mellors

12 reviews

lilyevy13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Death of parent

aashley_aantico's review against another edition

emotional slow-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

3.75

An emotional note on the bonds and breaks of sisters, addiction, and finding who we truly are. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Blood

maddiebusick's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

joclousing's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infertility, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

sydapel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

Even as someone who doesn't have sisters, the depth and complexity Mellors is able to show through the main characters feels so realistic and surreal. I also liked how addiction and grief and moving forward was centered in this book, how it takes a different shape for each of the sisters. Heart wrenching, yet so satisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Blood, and Vomit

rheagoveas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

katerina_l's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

cynthia_wlms's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Vomit, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

gwenswoons's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This was good — it came to me as part of a monthly book subscription I have with a literary fiction-ish bent, and it definitely fit that bill. The prologue immediately captured me; I love a complicated-family saga (or a complicated family saga, true either way), and I loved the immediate characterizations of the different sisters.

I struggled at points to stay really engaged with the book. I actually love that it basically does nothing but watch our main characters reckon with grief, but to my reading there were so many moments that I felt could have been crafted ever so slightly more specifically: specific repetition done either less often or more intentionally; inconsistencies of voice that felt again less intentional than they might be (particularly in the back and forth American/British-ness of certain characters and relationships); a good number of typos, oddly. I don’t often think about this stuff but I guess I felt that as good as this is, there was an even more special book within reach and it felt a little disappointing even as I thought it was good in many ways. The choice to write in multiple POVs — one I often do love — felt like it caused   the sisters to be deliberately kept separate for so much of the book; perhaps why I felt the prologue and epilogue were some of the most effective moments in the novel.

Anyway — it’s good, not (for me) great, and I’m not sure I would read more by CM. It’s sad but without big lingering impact, I think, which breaks my heart a little bit since there’s potentially so much intense and powerful stuff in here about family, addiction, grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism