Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gild by Raven Kennedy

74 reviews

jennipea382's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Gore, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death, Violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, and Confinement

Minor: Alcohol, Classism, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, and Adult/minor relationship

khaylaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

I went into this book as a blind read. I didn’t know what to expect but I really liked this book. I can’t wait to start book 2. It was an unexpected journey with some twists and turns that I didn’t see coming.

There are trigger warns for this book so if you are sensitive to some content make sure you check the warnings! 

This was a fun adventurous twist on the Midas touch mythology and was an easy smooth read for me! 

My only wish some of the relationship development was more in depth. I don’t want to give spoilers but I feel like I didn’t get enough time with the relationship forming between two characters and I loved their dynamic I just needed a little more time with them to have them fully wiggle their way into my heart. 

Highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder, Trafficking, Blood, Rape, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

sami_not_sammi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, Kidnapping, Violence, Sexual content, and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

Minor: Classism and Infertility

fimk's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

2.0

Te heftig, vond ik.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

kalequeentv's review against another edition

2.5

I feel guilty saying this but; this book feels like a try-hard. It’s wild that I’m going to read the entire series (I’m just not a quitter even when I hate books I have to pray for a redemption). The world building was fine and the characters are mildly interesting, but ultimately the book is so slow it brings it’s own downfall. 

Slight spoily and graphic +18 hints in this paragraph, proceed with caution! ⚠️ The fact that we spend 30% of this book waiting for a SA, only for her to be free, only then, yet again we spend another 20% of the book waiting for another SA - this whole thing is leaving me kinda “….??” I think perhaps I have issue with the “obsessively dumping trauma after trauma on your MC until they break and become super strong and can fight the oppressive war because now they understand the oppression of the people”. I really do hate it. I’ll say it. I think trauma dumping on characters until they are “worthy” leaders or power forces in a rebellion is silly and boring. I wish we could find better motivation without the concept of repeated SA? The author literally HOOKED the concept of poverty on a line for the MC to gobble up and feed her rage but it doesn’t matter because BAM let’s assault someone again. 

Maybe book two will hook me. One can only hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Rape, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Classism, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Blood, Trafficking, and Death

gfaith'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Trafficking, War, and Infidelity

Minor: Murder, Death, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

mrsgeorge_22's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

This book pulls you in from the very beginning, the twists and turns kept me wanting to read more. I loved the book and am already reading the second one. It is intense, so be warned! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

faerybookish's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Misogyny, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, War, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, and Sexual content

zabby9's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

The concept of this book is good and I enjoyed it but the execution isn’t great. I don’t really understand why the author focused so much on the sexual aspect of the book and not the character development? Seemed like a lot of missed opportunities or just could have made the book shorter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Trafficking, Blood, Death, and Adult/minor relationship

poempelnator's review against another edition

DNF 69%
I was straight up not having a good time.
I don't need fiction, if I wanna read about women being degraded and humiliated.

I didn't wanna judge too soon so I watched a summary/recap of the next two books so I can assume - it does not get better.
Even if you'd say "oh but it's dark fantasy so you're just weak" I think it's not well written. It's not intriguing. I don't care for the characters. I wasn't entertained.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Bullying, and Sexual content