Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

4 reviews

linneak's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and Infidelity

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.0

How did this author manage to make the book racist when it's about animals 😒

The author relies on some racist and sexist stereotypes and the characters that aren’t offensive are just boring. You’ve got the panda who runs a restaurant called “Bamboo Patch” and he used to be a doctor in his home country but now here he’s working a low-income job. He has special herbs from his homelands in a cabinet in his office (aka playing on eastern medicine). It all feels like low-hanging fruit, relying on surface level cultural information to recreate stereotypes.

Everything feels so predictable and neither the worldbuilding nor the writing made up for the lack of good characters. There's a bookshop and a coffee shop and I wanted these to be richly detailed, cosy, and memorable. They're so lack luster that they blend into the rest of the scenery which is also boring.

I only finished this to see how it ended (who was the murderer) and that was a disappointment reliant on stereotypes as well. It just flopped. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Murder, Racism, and Xenophobia

stampest's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Confinement, Alcohol, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Sexism, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

anselm's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

A good cosy mystery but except for the characters being animals, the story didn't necessarily stand out.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, and Animal death

Minor: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Stalking, Racism, Violence, Medical content, Classism, Animal cruelty, and Blood