Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

20 reviews

andloveistoolong's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Toxic relationship

blewballoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I listened to this on audiobook because I loved reading Gideon the Ninth by the same author, and I wanted to get a feel for this narrator since I know she (Moira Quirk) narrates The Locked Tomb series. First of all, Moira Quirk is fantastic and I'd listen to just about anything she narrated. As far as the story, it's an interesting examination of fairy-tale tropes. As might be expected if you've read anything else by Tamsyn Muir, it can be quite dark while also being sarcastic and humorous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Body horror

Minor: Vomit, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

bfab's review

adventurous funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

aardwyrm's review

adventurous dark funny lighthearted medium-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

Striking the balance between riffing on riffs and intentionally clashing tones is tricky, but with very few stumbles, achieved. There are a few moments that are downright precious, but overall a fun little subversion for the generation that grew up on already subverted fairy tales. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Sexism, Suicide, Abandonment, Animal death, and Mental illness

kell_xavi's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

2.0

This is a difficult book to find a copy of, but it’s fairly easy to search up a PDF. I wasn’t that impressed with it, however, on the emotional/character development level or in terms of fight scenes. I’m not certain why Muir included so many monsters only to breeze past most of them. It’s a fun read, but not satisfying for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

motaki's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Violence

jenny_d's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

callmekt's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

(from notes in the reading log) 
* Novella about a princess locked in the top floor of a tower and must get herself out with the help of a fairy named Cobweb
* The narration uses the occasional "I" and "you" pronouns and I thought those would come into play during the story, but it didn't. They were just a flourish to keep us in the fairy tale mindset
* Also thought the ending a little anti-climatic.

We hear about the dragon all book but Floralinda fights and kills it off-screen. Then she becomes a monster in the tower for the next princess to fight.

* Have some issues with Cobweb's feelings for Floralinda.

Because Floralinda kidnaps (basically) Cobweb, imposes a gender on the fairy, and refuses to free Cobweb until the final flight. Yet Cobweb returns and mentions the "being sick" feeling Floralinda described as love. Should I worry about Muir's idea on where and how love should flourish?

* Despite all of this, I really enjoyed it! Would recommend to other fans of twisted fairy tales
* Finished 1 December 2020

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Cobweb is nonbinary

giuliasbookshelves's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Confinement, Death, and Gore