Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

36 reviews

oliviaslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Minor: Racism and Death of parent

paperhippie's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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

4.75

A sapphic love story about doing whatever you think necessary to save the person you love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, and Murder

growintogardens's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.5

It could have been really good but the romance wasn't great imo, and it felt like the first and second books of a series smooshed together. Had some funny moments and neat story overall.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Blood

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

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This wasn't a book for me. I really wanted to like it. I thought the summary was good and I kept trying to like it. I didn't connect with the characters or the plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Minor: Racism, Slavery, and Death of parent

kay_w's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

A great book but the last third started slow and then began to feel rushed towards the end.

I loved the whole concept and execution of the narrator. Without it I don’t think I would’ve have enjoyed the book as much.

I’m very keen to read more of Alexis Hall’s books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Excrement, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

A delightful adventure of two young women's love, in a magical version of regency England that's full of witches and fairies and old gods and magic. I sometimes have trouble getting into sapphic romances but this one was a quick easy read that grabbed me right away. The narrative framing was great.

The whodunnit that we start with seemed very obvious, but then it turned out to not be the real focus of the story, so I was more okay with it having been obvious. The rest of the story was well done. 

And Alexis Hall always treats the characters (especially the queer ones) with the respect and nuance they deserve, which I really appreciate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Despite all the content warnings, this was a pretty easy, low-to-medium stakes read; nothing terribly traumatic to most readers.

melethwi's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Really could’ve done without the narrator but otherwise love to see a good lesbian romance book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Rape

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Sexual violence, and Classism

elliya's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

Not my cup of tea. I didn’t find the narrator humorous at all — just contrived. Because of the limits of the narrator, the whole story felt stilted and we got almost zero character development. A fairly standard old/young, grumpy/sunshine — but not getting anyone’s genuine perspective or any emotional depth made the whole thing fall flat for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood and Murder

crossingtheratterlin's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny, Transphobia, and Kidnapping