Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Valiant by Holly Black

6 reviews

camiclarkbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.5

“Valiant” is the second book in Holly Black’s “Modern Faerie Tales” trilogy and features a different set of main characters than the first book, “Tithe.”

As in the first book, Black weaves a story that balances between showing the wondrous parts of fairyland and the wicked side. She puts her human characters through it, especially the main character Val. 

This book was dark in a different way than “Tithe,” with much of the story centered around the main characters’ abuse of a fictional drug called Nevermore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Classism, Drug use, Addiction, Blood, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death, Cursing, and Adult/minor relationship

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

raelinrou's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

bookcaptivated's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Murder, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

mollyanne624's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Infidelity

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

multiplyoctopi's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• 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

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Blood, Death, Gore, and Drug use

Minor: Gun violence and Sexual content