Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

60 reviews

cheye13's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, War, Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

hannae's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Rape

Minor: Ableism and Xenophobia

lit_with_lauren's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Death of parent, Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

roosveld's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Grammar sucks

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, War, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abandonment, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Confinement, and Child death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

libbylou905's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Gore, Murder, Torture, Slavery, and War

wolf013's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Trafficking, and Slavery

Minor: Death of parent

bailee_c's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: War

Minor: Blood, Cursing, and Alcohol

forthesanityof1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Accidentally deleted my review by pushing the wrong button. This book got points for the first 120 pages and tight writing. Characters were hard to connect with or care about. Plot was unoriginal and dropped a couple big points without explanation. Romance was forced and had no genuine connection that would make me root for it. It only had vikings going for it and nothing more. A let down, but that's what I get for trying a book tiktok likes (tbf I had picked this up BEFORE it hit tiktok but guess I still haven't learned my lesson).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

bookling_thoughts's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book hits different. It was an immersive story and you really just wanted the best for all the characters ❤️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and War

egurgens's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book! We get to know the main characters backstory a bit before any drastic really happens, which sets a good base for the main plot to develop. Definitely a great enemies-to-lovers book. Set in (Viking?) villages, there is a continuous war between the followers of two different gods. Every five years, the two sides fight in a particular field, fighting to avenge the blood feud declared between the two gods. Everything changes when an impossibility happens, and Eelyn finds herself surrounded by enemies, learning how to survive in a new way and path in life. A common enemy appears, pulling the two clans into a reluctant alliance. 

There is SO much tension in this story, but it really keeps the reader engaged. The reader gets to watch as Eelyn struggles through her emotions and difficult situations, and enjoy watching her develop into the character we end up loving. There are definitely some difficult topics touched on, like the threat of sexual assault, violence, graphic violence, and lots of loss / grief. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, War, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Vomit