Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

La reina de los condenados by Anne Rice

5 reviews

bolivianrash's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Genocide, Grief, Dysphoria, Murder, Slavery, Toxic relationship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Cannibalism

Minor: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Sexism, Misogyny, Body horror, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

calcified_boner's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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

the devil's minion chapter ily 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Genocide, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Rape, Kidnapping, and Cannibalism

Minor: Suicide, Pregnancy, Drug use, Alcoholism, Self harm, Addiction, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, Grief, Confinement, and Alcohol

jelliestars's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Body horror, Death, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Incest, Sexism, Genocide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Colonisation, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Mass/school shootings, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Abortion, Car accident, Gun violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Chronic illness, Excrement, Hate crime, Slavery, Xenophobia, Medical content, Racism, War, and Suicidal thoughts

startjpw23's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This is the third book in the Vampire Chronicles. This book continues the story of Lestat from The Vampire Lestat. It also tells the story of multiple other characters. Including Akasha who is the Queen Of The Damned. It goes much more in depth about how vampires were initially created. These include both Akasha and other First Born. I enjoyed this book a lot. I liked it best of the three books in the Vampire Chronicles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

econsidine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.25

If you've made it to QotD, I'm assuming you're already on board for vampire melodrama and excessive use of words like "pearlescent." If so, you'll probably like this book. I enjoyed it a lot, like the previous two, and Lestat as the main narrator still manages to be on the right side of ridiculously-egomaniacal-with-a-conscience. He's very close to becoming insufferable to read about, but isn't yet.

Some things that don't work as well: the framing device is a lot weaker than in previous books, and as it's set up like episodic short stories, not all of the sections are winners. To Anne Rice's credit, though, most of it is compelling, and I was consistently surprised by just how weird and expansive she continued to make the universe without it feel overstuffed or convoluted. Special shout out to The Devil's Minion (a gripping, off-the-wall 30-page section that's very unrelated to the plot) and to Pandora (my favorite new character). I'm not sure all the stuff I found funny was actually meant to be funny, but the humor was hilarious, even more so because it caught me by surprise.

Overall, it starts strong, has some great moments, starts to drag for a while, and then ends good again. There's murder. There's kissing. There's a section called "Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang" and a vampire who collects blenders. What more do you want?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Murder, Blood, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Slavery, Pregnancy, and Misogyny