Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

5 reviews

walrus420's review against another edition

• 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: Mental illness, Gore, Death, Confinement, Murder, Blood, Medical trauma, Medical content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Cursing, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Police brutality

elsebeok's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Deportation, Sexual content, and Self harm

shannonbauchat's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Self harm, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual assault

jillaay_h's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, and Confinement

sofipitch's review

dark reflective slow-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 adored this book, it's very dark in that the horror isn't so much the monster but the treatment of the mentally ill at psych wards, but it's also very funny and the characters and their interactions are great. It just has a lot of heart and you can see what a labor of love it is. Also one thing I loved is how you don't get the diagnoses of any of the characters, the summary on here gives one for a character but I genuinely don't remember it being mentioned, the book focuses on how these are people, not diagnoses or case studies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Police brutality, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Moderate: Gore and Mental illness