Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

75 reviews

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, War, Xenophobia, Murder, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia

sabinehunter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Violence, Bullying, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

breadbees's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence, War, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abandonment, Gaslighting, and Blood

Minor: Animal death and Classism

eyelash_0205's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Carry On is the first book I've read and finished in about 3 years and I'm so glad it was this book. It has these well known elements like "the chosen one" and an enemies to lovers trope and it manages to still be so different and unique. I think the way magic is described to feel is so distinctive and so well done you can imagine it perfectly for yourself. The relationships and character development throughout the whole story is so beautiful to read. Honestly, I have no idea how to write book reviews but this book now means so much to me now, I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder

singalana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

a_islandcriptid's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Blood, Eating disorder, Violence, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Abandonment, and Murder

xtsukix's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Cute :) I liked this a lot, even though its over 500 pages I finished it in less than 24 hours even though I should really get started on that essay due in 3 days. I found it (for the most part) very gripping - it was rare I wanted to put the book down. However, I wasn't super fond of the way it was written, especially towards the beginning, where it was mainly just detailing past exploits. I had to check multiple times that I was reading the first book in the series because it felt like the opening of a sequel which feels the need to explain everything that happened in the last 5 books in case you forgot. There were definitely a lot of times I was frustrated because I just wanted to find out what was happening in the moment, rather than 2-3 years ago - this lessened (mostly) the more the book went on though, to a manageable amount by the 40-50% mark.

Baz is great, love him, would die for him and all of that. Penelope? Also fantastic. Love her. What an angel. Agatha stayed along for too long, and every time her POV came up I was like :/ but she's fine I guess. The ending kinda felt like a stone in my stomach, but I'm hoping that gets resolved in the next book which, by reading the blurb, it sounds like it will. Looking forward to it, although a little worried about the reviews. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Kidnapping

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Animal death, and War

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Blood, and Vomit

wet_towlette's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed the middle of this book like it was a fucking five star read,  it definitely wasn’t that but, regardless the middle was extraordinarily entertaining and the romance was, subjectively, one of the best “enemies” to lovers I’ve read. Unfortunately, you have to suffer through the first 150ish pages first. And that sucked a lot, I was very close to dnfing. The ending also wasn’t the greatest for me but I think that’s because I predicted 2/3 of the plot twists. And I can’t even feel good about that because it was so blatant. Also, I hated when I had to read from Agathas POV. I’m not sure why I loathed it so much but I truly did. Anyway, it was another ya romance that got me giggling and shit so do with that what you will. Bro this book is like the selection, it’s kinda trash but I like it? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death, Blood, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pregnancy

kaitbeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Vomit