Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gothikana by RuNyx

45 reviews

mae_dexter_author's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, and Mental illness

Minor: Blood, Terminal illness, Stalking, Grief, Gaslighting, Death, Dementia, and Death of parent

chasie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

7/10 <3
this was a very entertaining read. it took me a while to get into it because the beginning was a little rough- but around 25% in i decided i enjoyed it enough to continue. i'm glad i did, too. this def wasn't Ru's strongest writing and seemed a little rushed at times with some editing flaws, and a good bit of repetition, but the plot was great and so was their story. the vibes and spice was great too :) 

to be honest, there were only like a handful or less of moments/ dialogue that were either very fanfic-y or cringe (that one fucking line that Vad said about being a pirate plundering her shores made me have to close the book at take a lap around the house, it was so embarrassing to read 😭 like i get what he said is poetic but that's not a bar that anyone says out loud😭) and even then it was still entertaining. like, was it a masterpiece? absolutely not? did it struggle sometimes? yeah, a bit. but was it fun? YES. 

the plottwists and the mystery were done really well and by the end it was a rollercoaster of emotions. but then again, Ru is exceptionally talented at blindsiding you with the most delicious plottwists. their epilogues were sooo sweet and heartwarming and i just really love their relationship. atp i will read anything Ru writes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Dementia

klpage's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Unfortunately the spice in this book took over from the plot. Which I didn’t like to read about constantly. 

I loved the aesthetic of the book, and the last 50 pages of interesting plot, but that was it unfortunately. 

Not for me I’m afraid! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

pastelbread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Suicide, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, and Death

Minor: Blood, Incest, Dementia, and Torture

Passive parenting, depictions of corpses

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The mystery in this book kept me interested, but the twist wasn't for me. One part surprised me, but the other part seemed reductive and trite.

As a whole, didn't love the romance, but that's because it's very lusty and not much "get to know you" happened. The demi in me just couldn't get on board with it all. The sexy parts seemed unrealistic at times too, but that's a whole other conversation. Also, I felt like there were just a lot of questions I never got answers to, and while the characters might've been fine with it, I wanted to know as it felt like a huge part of the mystery of it all.

In the end, I was interested throughout, but a lot of it was just a miss for me as things came to light. Great for gothic girlies who love when the LI calls the MC a "good girl" and enjoys a little bit of a psychological/paranormal thriller. I am not that type of girly.

Rep: Parent with schizophrenia and dementia

TW: blood, suicide, murder, death, torture, fire, sexual content, kidnapping; mentions abandonment, death of a parent, bullying 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Murder, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Torture

Minor: Bullying, Abandonment, and Death of parent

bonez_x's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, and Suicidal thoughts

hillsa87's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

3.25

This is a gothic spicy book.  It has a Wednesday meets Dracula vibe (without vampires that is). I wanted to like this book but the pace and writing was hard to get into in the beginning.  I had moments where I wanted to DNF but I was doing a buddy read and wanted to give it a chance.  The middle and end were the best part so if you can make it to that than 👍 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Blood, Murder, and Death

direguard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Rape, Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, Abandonment, Incest, and Sexual assault

hobbit_at_heart's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

 

I really enjoyed this story! However, I will say I do not see any correlation between this story and comparing it to "dracula and beauty and the beast" aside from a girl falling for a "devil" in a castle.

The whole time I thought Vad Deverel was going to end up being a vampire or something and that never happened. So that was a touch disappointing. The smut could have been a touch better, but I won't complain.

I suck at reviews, but all-in-all, a good story. Definitely New Adult vibes. At first I was under the impression that this was set in an older timeline, however it was fairly modern with random things like the use of phones and internet was stuck in. Some of the writing was kind of cringy and I sped read through a LOT of fluffy bits that simply weren't all that necessary to have even been put into writing. Overall, good book. If Goodreads would do a 1/2 star system, this would be a solid 3.5 for me but I rounded up for the sake of having enjoyed the plot twist at the end bc I never would have seen it coming. Wild ride at the end!

HEA was corny as SHIT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Suicide, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Death, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, and Stalking

Minor: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Incest

gracehannahh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Mental illness, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Medical content, and Murder