Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

32 reviews

pils8p's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Slavery and Trafficking

Minor: Bullying

cball98's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.75

I don’t know why this took me so long to read because I really enjoyed it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Trafficking, Animal death, Medical content, Vomit, Death, Slavery, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, and Blood

lisavandonselaar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal death and Grief

jesus_d's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Violence, Gore, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, and Slavery

anntharai's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Cliffhangers kill me but yet here we are. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Torture, Classism, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

rafacolog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Sexism, Murder, Blood, and Death

emmjay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Animal death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit

dragonaion's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

An excellent sequel, God's grave absolutely did not disappoint! The hardest thing about writing a sequel with such a known character is how to keep the character's development and growth believable, consistent, and still flow with the guidance of the story. 

With that, I am delighted to already have the final book beside me so I can read this story just as it feels it was written-back to back. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Religious bigotry, Murder, Medical content, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Blood, Violence, Trafficking, Sexual content, and Slavery

Moderate: Confinement, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Infertility, and Sexism

hailstan6669's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Sexual content, and Blood

toodrew's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

More and more, this book started to feel like the author's nighttime fantasy.

Sure that existed in Nevernight, but it wasn't the only thing in Nevernight. I enjoyed the world-building and the themes more. But in this one, at least in my mind, it lost a lot of it's narrative purpose. It multiplied the problems of the first.

Kristoff doesn't write the queer couple like an actual couple, but a fetish.  Nevernight had this problem too. In a brief scene where Mia kisses Ashlynn. Her love-interest responds with anger and. . . . nah just kidding. He talks about how hot it is because remember women loving women relationships only exist to please men. A woman can't be a threat to a hetero relationship.  But this was pretty brief. His problem with writing women loving women relationships is so much worse in this one because he decided to bring it to the forefront. Mia doesn't even question if she's bi until MONTHS LITERAL MONTHS after she had a threesome with a woman. Like what?

Look the world really doesn't need any more terrible queer representation. If you can't write a queer character than just don't.

There were other problems. Character Development is not there.

I liked the writing-style and the tone but this one really crashed and burned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Blood, Child death, and Death