Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

39 reviews

tadpolefox's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Misogyny, Grief, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death of parent and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit, Sexual harassment, and Alcoholism

yasaman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, Grief, War, Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Vomit

roenfoe's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.25

The Knife of Never Letting Go has been a highly anticipated read for me since I first heard of the Chaos Walking trilogy a few years ago. While my overall reading experience was enjoyable and I plan to continue with the series, there were a few aspects that detracted from its overall quality.

From the start and all throughout, TKONLG had me hooked. It's been a while since I have read a thriller-esque story and I had forgotten how fun a page-turner can be. I really enjoyed the writing style at first, but found myself skipping some descriptive language later on where the repetitive waffle was at its zenith. However, even with the tense plot and my anticipation, this novel managed to drag around the 350 page mark. Following

the initial escape from Farbranch, the plot became extremely formulaic. Escape a town, continue down the road, discover a new town with a new dynamic, rinse and repeat

. The three main characters and many of the side characters were the highlight of this novel. I became surprisingly invested in the relationship between Todd and Viola, not to mention the endearing Manchee. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the villains. Their plot armour was painfully obvious and their motives cartoonish. I hope that more depth is added to their side of the story in the sequel. The main characters experienced comically bad luck throughout, to the point where it became easy to predict what would happen next. This also removed an element of suspense; if everything always goes wrong, you lose the will-they-won't-they feeling. Finally, that cliffhanger was ridiculous. It did its job (made me want to read the next book) but there was no element of closure or conclusion, something that is necessary in a five hundred page book.

I really liked TKONLG- it was great, but not earth shattering. I hope that the sequel improves on some of these issues. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, and Gore

manola's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? Yes

3.5

Overall nice read. Kept me hooked all throughout. The moral struggles the main character, Todd, carries throughout the story are well tought through, and his reactions to events feel, well, human (sensation that i've found lacking in many novels). I didnt find myself becoming overly fond of neither him nor Viola for some reason, though. There are many tense moments when you definitely want them to end up pushing through, but i expected to feel more caught especially by the big cliffhanger at the end, for some reason. 
Nonetheless, both the worldbuilding and plot are quite admirable and the story was very enjoyable. It's not that i didnt care for the 'good characters' at all, both kids are lovely and seeing their relationship develop was really nice. Im planning on reading the secuel as well, where im guessing i'll become more invested in them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

percivaljoyce's review

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Vomit, Physical abuse, Gun violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sneha_m's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, War, and Animal cruelty

victoria_2002's review

adventurous dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Vomit, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Death, Grief, and Misogyny

itsnicholaslashay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Grief, Blood, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Sexism, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Genocide, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death of parent

desiderium_incarnate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

"We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing." 

Das tat weh. Ich glaube nicht, dass ich dieses Buch so schnell vergessen kann. Es ist so unglaublich, brutal, aggressiv, verzweifelt, verwirrt und liebevoll. Es steckt voller Verluste und Entscheidungen und (falscher) Informationen von Menschen, die man sein Leben lang kennt. Es geht um Neuanfänge, die unerwartet schief gehen, sprechende Hunde, die verstummt werden (der Hauptcharakter ist kein John Wick aber die beiden würden sich sicher verstehen) und (das) Unbekannte, was als Feind angesehen wird. Es ist unfassbar schlimm und ich bin so schockiert. Warum zur Hölle lese ich so etwas gerade eben? 
Ich weiß nicht, ob ich diese Geschichte weiterempfehlen würde, ich bezweifle es, warum sollte ich andere leiden sehen wollen, nicht in diesem Ausmaß! 
Ich mag dieses Buch nicht, es ist ist so kreativ und überzeugend gestaltet aber für mich zu heftig. Ich respektiere es aber. Es ist ein starkes Werk. Es hat mich nur ziemlich geschafft. 

"Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Death, Murder, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and War

notcasino's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

I love this book. I cried so much. You can also find some good, cool and heartbreaking quotes in the book.
I just didn't give 5 stars because there is one thing that keeps happening again and again, but in the last chaperts of the book you will understand why it is repeating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, and War