Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

160 reviews

lila_heart's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Gaslighting

moanareads's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

paigeinabook's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

m_antoinette_c's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

kelegrace's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ummm…I need the second book immediately 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Grief and Death of parent

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

I absolutely loved this book! I immediately started the second book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood and Death of parent

midnacine's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

This was fun! Very fast paced and easy read, didn't take too much brain power. Fluffy and on the predictable side, but enjoyable nonetheless. The characters aren't anything special (with the exception of Jacks) and I wish we'd gotten to see more development on the main characters- some motivations felt very flat to me and it almost felt like the author realized she didn't have a compelling antagonist so she just slapped an "evil-and-behind-it-all" sticker on someone who could've easily been more nuanced and complicated. I wonder if my opinion would've changed if I'd read the Caraval books before diving into this.

And Miss Ma'am Evangeline jumping to conclusions in her head all the damn time... I think I might have gotten whiplash. I bought the second book anyways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood and Murder

Minor: Death of parent

frankieclc's review against another edition

3.0

nothing fancy, nothing new but entertaining, enjoyable and easy to read 

(jacks is 5 stars)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Toxic friendship

bectothebooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing 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, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Confinement and Injury/Injury detail

kimduindam's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I loved this book. Couldn't put it away! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood