Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

582 reviews

adbooks20's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Murder, Torture, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Gore, Death, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Cancer, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, Confinement, and Terminal illness

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Blood, Cancer, Child death, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Cannibalism, and War

luckibuns's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Cancer, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Genocide, Cannibalism, Child death, and War

soupqueen's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

An enjoyable read overall, but I think that the author didn’t exactly succeed in doing what she wanted to do. There are some really interesting world building elements that just aren’t explored but would have added greatly to the book. I’m told the world building is more fleshed out in the second book, but we’ll see.

Additionally, I started out not caring for Gideon – I feel like the author simple gave me no reason to like her other than witty sarcasm (which I love, but doesn’t make for a compelling character on its own).  Eventually, I was too drawn into the plot/mystery of the book to put it down just because I disliked the main character.

Overall, I’m glad I finished the book and have even started the second one, but I think the hype around this book is more than it deserves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Suicide

zefancifulreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Holy Hell. 
What an incredible book. 
It’s witty, it’s dark, it’s bloody and I’m absolutely in love. 
It was made even better with Moira Quirk lending voice to this dynamic story. 
I will treasure this first read forever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Suicide, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, War, Torture, Cannibalism, and Self harm

winged's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, Body horror, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Cancer, Blood, and Cannibalism

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Child abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Infertility

jaimc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

radtj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

Necromantic battles are just as awesome as they sound. Thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the mysterious plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Child death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Classism, and Emotional abuse

book_snail's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

Genuinely can't stress this more: go into this blind, and expect your experience of the book to be unique to what you might've heard online. It's really hard to describe what this story is actually about, so it's best to experience it firsthand and draw your own conclusions :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Child abuse, Body horror, Violence, Murder, Child death, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Cancer, Bullying, Cannibalism, Cursing, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Grief

sammy357's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death and Cancer

Talk of depression, suicide, grief depiction, trauma depiction, loss of a loved one, self harm to get blood

Human sacrifice