Reviews tagging 'Blood'

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

152 reviews

boyname's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, and War

ay_reads_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

I can't even lie, when I first tried to read this book about a year ago, I had to DNF. Now that I have actually read it, I absolutely hate myself for not reading it sooner. I was so enamored by this book that I have pages and pages of notes. I drew out family trees. I felt like a detective reading this book. 

The amount of emotions I went through with this book is ridiculous, the twists and turns and surprises, I had no idea what was going to happen next. I'm now super nervous for the 3rd book... 

Like my heart is hammering writing this right now because 
Bryce ended up in Prythian!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Blood, Torture, War, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Child death, Colonisation, and Misogyny

piercelou's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Slavery, Domestic abuse, Murder, Blood, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, and Torture

justqueue's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood, Colonisation, Grief, and Cursing

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcohol, War, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Confinement

smkelly1997's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Overall, this is a great book. SJM is still introducing you to everything so at times things seem out of the blue but I feel like that’s the point. I would say, I think I liked CC1 better, however, when looking at the SJM universe in total this book provides so much context and clues that it bumped it from a 3.75 to a 4. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Colonisation, and Grief

emmak2121's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

There’s childhood trauma mentions throughout the book such as child abuse. There’s also mentions of abuse between the hind too just be wary and this is quite a spicy book too x 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Gaslighting, Drug use, Genocide, Murder, Sexual content, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

kshertz's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I’m definitely hooked on these characters. The love stories mostly. But it’s a whole world built that now needs to be brought down. I’m enjoying all these very different people bringing it down. Personally a big fan of Ruhn but hate where his storyline went and Hypoxias too. But of course I’m hooked and will keep reading. Wondering how it’s all going to come together 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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: Gaslighting, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Genocide, Sexual content, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Classism, Emotional abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

pierrereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Rape

jcrawford31's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Body horror, Blood, Vomit, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, and War

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Slavery, and Panic attacks/disorders