Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy

4 reviews

ezwolf's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I really wanted to love this. A fat main character who's also a superhero? And queer??? Count me in! 

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get in to it. I'm not a fan of pop culture references even in present day stories and there were just so many of them. I was also a lot more interested in the superhero aspect than the romance aspect and so much of the book was focused on the love triangle between Faith, Dakota, and Johnny. Even while acknowledging that love triangles aren't fun! I was fully skimming by the last 40% or so, but I don't even know if we got a resolution with Johnny or if Faith just started spending more time with Dakota and didn't mention Johnny again post-corn maze. 

I think this book may be a hit for someone else, just not for me :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Body shaming, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug abuse, Blood, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

1.0

I’m honestly kinda disappointed that I didn’t like this.  I just couldn’t get into it.

It was way too quick paced to the point I just didn’t care about anything that happened.  The dialogue was stiff and just overall felt like it was for a much younger audience rather than a YA book.

The friendships and side characters just kinda fell flat.  Especially when the plot twist happened in chapters 24/25.  I just honestly didn’t care at that point what happened.  Even the ending seem so rushed and I don’t understand why.

I will say the plus sized rep was nice along with some of the queer rep but that was about it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gaslighting, Animal death, Dementia, Addiction, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical trauma, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, Death, Stalking, Trafficking, Racism, and Blood

malloryfitz's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Blood, Mental illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Fatphobia, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Body shaming, Colonisation, Cursing, Stalking, Racism, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Drug use, and Drug abuse

memorable's review

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A fat superhero is something the world needs this year! It’s a great story about Faith and I do hope there will be more to come!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, and Drug use

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