Reviews tagging 'Blood'

When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker

40 reviews

kristinvaldez'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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief, Animal death, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Pregnancy and Cannibalism

christinastentzel's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Torture, Sexual content, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Murder, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Rape

thecanadianbookworm'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I cried so many times, two of those times I had to put the book down. Crying so hard I couldn't continue.

Wow. Such a beautiful writing style, and a sad tale.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Animal cruelty, Grief, Torture, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Slavery

Minor: Child abuse, Abandonment, and Pregnancy

lakinglaze's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

Wow! This book was just amazing! I fell in love with everything about this story and these characters. I think Raeve might be my favourite FMC ever now. And Kaan…well Kaan is just the most 🖤🖤🖤 man ever! I can’t wait to see where this will all go with the next installment! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexism, Torture, Gore, and Medical trauma

chanlo1994's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Excellent voice acting. Especially for the character "The Other". *chef's kiss. It's such a cool and unique fantasy world. Love the world building.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Mental illness, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cannibalism, Death of parent, Xenophobia, and Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Rape, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Child death, and Child abuse

ashboutiette's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

When the moon hatched

This book was just WOW!! The world building was unique and well done. It took a hot minute to get use to all the different words and creatures but once I did I was hooked. Pro tip: there’s a glossary in the front, refer to that often. I read this on my kindle so that made it a little difficult.  

There was a lot of gore at the beginning and I struggled with it to the point I almost DNFd but I’m SO glad I didn’t because this quickly became one of my top reads this year! 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

🌶️🌶️🌶️

When the moon hatched follows Reave, an assassin who works for rebel forces. Her goal is to make the kingdom she lives in a better place; Until she seeks revenge due to a tragic event and gets caught. She’s thrown in the dungeon to wait for her trial where a mysterious man comes by and is immediately drawn to her. He’s feeling crazy because he swears he knows her and she has no idea who he is but she’s drawn to him and unsure why. 

Reave is a strong FMC who doesn’t take anyone’s crap and gets things done. 

Kaan is chefs kiss. He is everything! 

The love story is so heart wrenching, achingly beautiful. The spice is spicing 🥵

There are so many twists and turns that keep you guessing. 

The relationship between fae and dragons was so well done and different than your average story. 

Tropes:

✨Fae

✨Dragons

✨Banter

✨Mysterious 

✨Corrupt kingdom 

✨Who hurt you

✨Forbidden love 

✨Multiple POV

✨Forgotten past 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Death, Violence, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content and Trafficking

Minor: Sexual assault, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Rape

callistag1's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

1.0

The one star is because the narrators did their job well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Gore, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal death, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Confinement, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

booksalacarte's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5⭐️ 3🌶️

Fantasy Romance
Multi POV
Unique magic system
Assassin FMC
Dragons
Secrets
Politics
Flashbacks

I started out with all 3 mediums of consuming this book. I put the audiobook aside fairly quickly due to finding the female narrator to be to be lacking the inflection to keep my interest. I stopped listening and quickly went to my ebook to start over.

But I highly recommend listening to chapter 15, if you have the audiobook available. As well as any following that feature the characters in the chapter.

The prologue was so beautifully used to start the world-building and laying down the groundwork for this to be the start of a very intricate and intense series! Once I got to Chapter 15, I was all in. That was when the book differentiated itself from other assassin FMC books, for me. 

The plot was very steady, providing the breath catching moments that kept me at the edge of my seat as well as moments settling in and showing the softer side of the characters. This made it so easy to relate to, and like, the characters. 

I loved it. It lived up to all the hype I saw.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual content, War, Vomit, Confinement, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Violence, Death, Excrement, Body horror, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Grief

nyx0206's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty