Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe

27 reviews

jessicaludden's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, Rape, and Sexual assault

csleeds's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

celery's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Drug use, Murder, Sexual assault, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Stalking, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Rape, and Toxic relationship

valpuri's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Toxic relationship, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Blood

sweetsouthwest's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Minor: Blood

ky001113's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Rape

Moderate: Death, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Blood

cassiecraycray's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

This story is beautiful. The artwork is amazing.
I absolutely love Persephone and Hades, they are so adorable and their interactions so sweet. 
I think its amazing how she's portraying the different gods and goddess. She's flipped the script on how some are portrayed, Hera isn't some cruel goddess in this story. It's refreshing and wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.25

A modernization of Greek Mythology, this volume creates an accessible, emotionally raw story that focuses on criticizing the amoral natures of the gods, and how close we can be in emulating them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Cursing, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Kidnapping, Violence, and Infidelity

Be aware that there are moments of disassociation, overbearing mothers, drugging alcoholic beverages, and stripping.

whatisjordyreading's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

the art is gorgeous but the characters are flat/boring or unlikeable. i'm only rooting for & interested in Persephone & Psyche.
maybe it's greek mythology, maybe i don't know enough of it, or maybe it's maybelline but i'm not sure why Psyche and her family are so brown??? for context, i'm Black, and i love me some inclusion and diversity. but here, it feels like unnecessary inclusion of brown-skinned characters– unless all humans are brown in this retelling of greek mythology?? Rachel Smythe, maybe you can tell me why you chose (a lovely, rich shade of) brown for the humans, bc it feels tokenizing 😬 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, and Blood

iamthelizardqueen's review

dark emotional lighthearted fast-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

4.0

Interesting modern take on the traditional greek gods. Makes it slightly easier to understand whos connected to each other. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Cursing, Sexual assault, and Infidelity