Reviews tagging 'Blood'

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

73 reviews

naiu_cs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit, Blood, Death, Violence, and Bullying

miayukino's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Death, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Blood

vagorsol's review

adventurous emotional 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: Bullying, Blood, and Transphobia

Minor: Death

lynxpardinus's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Transphobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood, Deadnaming, Animal death, Ableism, and Colonisation

hello_lovely13's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Transphobia

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Death

Minor: War and Death of parent

rachelditty's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

Another great story from Tillie Walden! The beginning was a bit slow for me, but once the plot really started to roll I couldn't put it down! I loved all the backstory we got for the core five characters, and the last five chapters were extremely gripping at tense. A great read!

A quote I liked:
"And I did make it to you. It just took me five years." (p. 479-480).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Medical content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Confinement

Minor: Transphobia

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Deadnaming, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, and Vomit

Minor: Lesbophobia, War, Toxic friendship, and Ableism

spark_879's review

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

found family; idk if there are any men/boys in the whole book; everyone  (except for one transphobe) is super queer-friendly/accepting or is queer themselves. 
lovely story; quick read that's a nice happy story and is worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, and Transphobia

• transphobia:

misgendering of a nonbinary character

• blood:

someone is stabbed & bleeding

hflh's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

This is an incredibly cozy, tender story about young love and found family in a beautiful, unique world. All the characters are women and nonbinary folx and every relationship featured is queer (yay!). The art, colours, and paneling are all amazing (but might be good to read in ebook format if you struggle with smaller text). 

Readers follow Mia between her present work restoring ancient sites in space and her past time meeting and falling for a girl, Grace, at her school. The chapters following Mia's time at school and her relationship with Grace are perfect and well worth the read, especially if you're a queer person who didn't have the chance to comfortably explore your sexuality in grade school. These parts are also framed really well by the little moments in Mia's present where she bonds with her work team. 

Where I struggled is the present-day plot as the book progressed. The present-day characters felt surface level or caricatured at times which was fine at first as it worked as just a framing narrative, but was harder for me in the latter half of the book when they became the focus. A few characters are given backstories to drive the plot and they either feel more 'telling vs. showing' or feel random and underdeveloped.

The setting in the last act is beautiful and different parts of it are highlighted through the plot, but it was harder for me to get into as it felt thrown together in order to show a cool world and get to a specific endgame. The endgame setting itself also felt purely created to introduce a key plot point in the past story and, with it being featured so much at the end, I needed way more development to get into it. This works since the focus is on the relationships and not a concretely developed world, but I needed a bit more to keep me grounded in the story. 

That being said, I really liked

the maturity and realism

in how

Mia and Grace's reunion went

at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Bullying

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Death

solybugs's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful relaxing 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

I'm usually not a big fan of graphic novels but I got assigned this as part of my Advanced Reading class and it was beautiful. Absolutely stunning artwork, loveable and realistic characters, and a big climax towards the end that turned the whole last half of the book into a page-turner. The flashbacks of Mia's past relationship were also adorable. The twists were hard to guess and caught me by surprise but still added to the plot at large. Even though it was around 500 pages, it felt way shorter because of how engaging it was. Easy 5/5, my favorite graphic novel I've read so far.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Death, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, and Murder

Also, there is misgendering directed towards a non-binary character although it is not intentionally discriminatory.