Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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141 reviews

patchy_at_best's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Lesbophobia

jasmine256's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia and Racism

_egg_wash's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide

phantomgecko's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.5

I read it in as close to one sitting as I can manage in my life. I very much needed to know what happened next. What happened was along my expectations but still pleasantly surprisingly, if that makes sense.

There were a lot of characters, but even the shortlived ones had enough personality for all of them to be distinct characters. Some were meant to likable, others unlikable, but others still were open to either option. Or neither.

There were a lot of perspective shifts, which usually bothers me (especially multiple shifts within a single scene), but it fed the fast pace of the book. It also helped give dimension to so many people.

Mack's super upsetting backstory was an interesting facet of the story. Of all the motivations in the story, hers was the wildest to me. It made perfect sense, but woof. Like, you have "I am tired of being a door-to-door salesman" and even "I was banished from my polygamist cult" which feel solid and normal (ish). Then Mack's like, "Yeah hiding is kinda my thing (tm) because

my father slaughtered my family but not me because I was hiding well enough.

" I'm glad she had the breakthroughs she did in the book, but therapy would've been better, probably.

I resonated with the social commentary so I didn't mind it. For example, the book divided them into two groups: losers and hustlers, but really, they were all unhappy and unsuccessful. A fun reminder that we have more in common than we think. And then the extensive emphasis on what is or isn't hard work and what people do or don't deserve... (For real, multiple times, my husband has started a conversation this morning about current events, and I was like, "So I just read this book..."...)

Also, a faithful movie adaptation would be incredible.

A lot lot lot of language though, so that's not my favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse and Lesbophobia

Gratuitous f-word

jenc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.75

Pretty good collection of wheelhouse tropes that I can tell you about because they're spoilers. Also really good character explorations, some more meaningful and finished than others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Mass/school shootings, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

caitbrat's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

kcelena's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

somelatenightreading's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and War

words_and_dreams's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.0

Hunger Games meets Cabin In the Woods. 

14 contestants are chosen to compete in a hide and seek game in an abandoned theme park. Each one has something to lose and is desperate to win. They soon begin to notice odd things and the players start disappearing. 

Horror, thriller, fantasy.

I like that we got POVs for the different characters so could understand their motivations and emotions without too much info dumping. It was more creepy than scary.

Overall really enjoyed it but the ending felt anti climactic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Bullying