Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

233 reviews

kozyisathetuna's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, and Suicide

heathermarie08's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

I enjoyed the way this book was set up, the descriptive scenes and the mystery that slowly unraveled. However, the ending felt ... abrupt. It was a little disappointing. I liked the Byatt parts but not the way it was written. Maybe it was because I enjoyed this as an audiobook but it. Was. Very. Patchy. Overall, it was a good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Grief, Death, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

starstruuk's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder, Death, and Gore

Minor: Vomit

aparnaprab's review against another edition

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? No

0.25

i want three hours of my life back. this was. an experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Child death, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Self harm

there was so. much. blood.

jiji_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Anyone beginning this should go in clear-eyed about what this book is and isn't. Setting aside the pastel cover with flowers and "Girls" in the title, this is a horror story. It isn't a cute or silly YA cozy mystery. There are no butterflies-in-the-stomach love triangles in math class. This is gory, dark, and deeply disturbing. If that's not your thing, don't start this, DNF it, and rate it poorly because you thought it was something it isn't. 

If this IS your thing, like it is mine, you're going to love this. On top of a deeply twisted, creeping dread of a plot, Power's writing is beautiful. It's poetic. It shocks at times, the poetry in the terror. It's brutal and fast-paced with no time to take a breath. At times I wished it were longer, but then I don't know if my heart and stomach could take much more. It's part zombie-apocalypse (kinda). It's part science thriller. It's part school girl survivalist drama. It's part warning. It's all good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault and Incest

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Blood, Child death, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Suicide

savagemoose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Animal death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Body horror

Moderate: Terminal illness and Gaslighting

carinareadss's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

Great cover, beautiful. The rest is just lacking.

Things started good, I liked the characters, I enjoyed how their flaws were represented & accepted. 
Things were moving at a nice pace & even though it wasn't this outstading piece of literature, it was good, I was having a good time navigating this world.

However the ending?! What?! Just when things were starting to move, it stops! 
We end this book with characters that we don't really know and a story that was just beginning. 

P.S: the higher score it's manly because of the cover & also because the story had potencial.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, and Violence

wolfstackdocks's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Wilder Girls is a book that I’d been meaning to read since it came out, and it’s about what I expected.
It’s somewhat dual perspective (which I think could’ve been done better with either more of Byatt’s perspective or none at all — following the perspective of the girls as a whole), but it’s not something that set me off the book. It took me 2-3 chapters to finally get invested in the story, but it was a pretty quick read once I did. I like the Tox — I like what it represents to have each girl experience it differently, and while there are warnings of body horror and gore, it’s pretty surface level — it is YA.

There’s a fair amount of implied/off-screen character development, things we don't get to see ourselves but watch the MC find out about other characters, which is underwhelming.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. I enjoyed the ending. It’s a book I might recommend to a high schooler, and I definitely wish I had read it when I first meant to because it probably would’ve been rated higher.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Gore, Death, Blood, Body horror, Vomit, Death of parent, and Violence

golden_hanne's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Blood, Violence, Death of parent, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Self harm