Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport

36 reviews

emfass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

miriam_in_life's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

awyatt's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia and Grief

kyuuketsukiniko's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

literaryintersections's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

WHEW ONE OF THE BEST FANTASY BOOKS THIS YEAR. phenomenal and I need Blood Gift now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

myamaya's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Overall, I liked the plot and aligned with Ikenna's motives. Though she was a bit too quick-tempered and made choices that annoyed me. 

I liked the world and the worldbuilding. It was really interesting reading it. I hope to read the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

shaipanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Ok this book is bat shit insaneeee - I absolutely loved it but definitely did not expect exactly how dark it is so keep that I mind if you read this. However despite that, I really loved Kenna and this was a superrr engaging book. Despite it being  darker than I tend to prefer I’ll almost definitely read the sequel when it comes out cause omg so well doneee :) 
However I will say I personally didn’t give it a 5 star because of how unlikeable pretty much every character is at various parts of the story (including Kenna occasionally lol) and I tend to prefer to at least somewhat like the characters I’m reading about 
Oh also reallyyyy look at the trigger warnings fr cause this book is insanely dark and has no issues killing off characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Cannibalism, and War

Minor: Toxic friendship

lycanhood's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Genocide

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and War

kiwi_00's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail