Reviews tagging 'Blood'

アーモンド by Won-pyung Sohn

235 reviews

chlschn's review against another edition

3.75

challenging 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

meganclaire7's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I adored this — the character growth and development is immaculate and this is definitely the best piece of translated literature I’ve read thus far 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder

lautodd_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Blood

_meganrose's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Fast-paced and simultaneously compelling. The ending has left me feeling a bit skeptical with how it all played out, but overall I enjoyed this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

shnez's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Death of parent

deedubb's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Great, fast read. Enjoyed characters and the struggle. Timeline was a little hard to follow.

Was worried it would be really tragic but the ending was so happy it was almost gooey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

mh_reads's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

starglitters's review against another edition

4.75

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Love is what makes a person human, as well as what makes a monster.

Almond is a deeply touching and poignant book about what it means to love, and what love means to one. Despite not understanding what love is, Yunjae shows his ability to love through the way he thinks of his grandma, the way he visits his mom, the way he eats with Dr. Shin, and the way he chooses to understand Gon. Despite having never been shown love, Gon shows how capable he is of love, how willing he is to give them if he is given the chance.

Luck plays a huge part in all the unfairness of the world. But it is also luck that brings you to meet the person that will help you understand what love is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent

Minor: Medical content

cho_da_in's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book destroys the meaning of ratings. Every other book I've rated 5 stars looks like a selfish diary entry by comparison. This is life transcribed in a book, and yet you turn your head and it also becomes the most beautiful collection of words I've ever seen strung together. Seriously guys the writing style is so beautiful and the characters are even better please give this a chance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness

Minor: Child abuse

beatrizmlemos's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder