Reviews tagging 'Blood'

One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake

22 reviews

e_riahh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and Suicide

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

• 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

3.5

Lovers to enemies. Enemies to lovers. 
A modern day Romeo and Juliet retelling complete with family drama and forbidden relationships, plus quite a few twists thrown into the mix. The story revolves around two powerful witch clans who have been rivals for over a decade: the Antonovas and the Fedorovs. 

The characters felt realistic, multi-faceted, and thankfully, developed without being entirely predictable. Which was great, especially since I’m not a huge play-lover so the characters are ultimately what kept me tuned in. But I did enjoy being surprised multiple times for a retelling! 

This is my third book by Blake and each time I’m reminded that I love how she writes—always so poetic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content and Emotional abuse

mrs_bastos's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-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

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Death, Drug use, and Sexual content

karenreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Olivie Blake, what have you done to me? You took me on a roller coaster ride and broke my heart and pieced it together and broke it again. Over and over.

The foundation of this story was Romeo and Juliet, but this is a story completely on its own, though it is enhanced by the comparisons with the play.

Back stabbing and betrayal, loyalty and family, and love. So much contained within these pages. I cried. I underlined and annotated so many pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Drug use, Murder, and Toxic relationship

_heytamsin's review against another edition

mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Murder

slowglow's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

This book had a really cool premise and cool ideas, and the writing style is dry but it definitely fits the vibes of the story. All is fine in that regard. My complaint comes with the ending, and maybe it's just because I didn't have to read Romeo and Juliet in high school (so I've never read it) but the ending just felt way out of left field for me-- like I had no clue where the story was going for the last quarter of the book, and then when the ending did come it wasn't satisfactory. I was very baffled by it, and not in the good way.

I was expecting two of them to die, but the set up and the reasoning behind it just didn't make the deaths feel justified, at least for me.

I can see the audience for this and I get why it had so much hype and I really did have a good time reading it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Death

aysha_blake's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Suicide, Blood, Drug abuse, Death, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual content, Alcohol, and Cursing

taylorthewitch's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Murder, and Blood

heidi_grey's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Drug use

angel__'s review against another edition

dark mysterious

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

4.5

It was pretty good, however 'Masters o Death' was better.
Again a book with vibes>plot.
Sometimes confusing

and many deaths. The end is a little bit unsatisfying 'cause you don't know about all characters what the future brings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Blood, Drug use, and Death