Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury

25 reviews

mitzee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

While magic is an aspect of the book and the characters, the main focus of the story is really personal relationships and solving a mystery. It’s weird to say but really this book has everything: crime/mystery, family relationships, personal growth, magic/fantasy, sci-fi, queer relationships, Black history, trans issues.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Murder and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence, Eating disorder, and Slavery

lemonlord_of_the_south's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

This was a great duology and a great continuation for the first book. I found the characters were more fleshed out in this one and the motivation was a lot clearer. 
I felt the ending wrapped up the story in a very satisfying way and made up for a lot of the frustration I felt in the first book.
Some of the miscommunication didn't make sens but only small parts for me at least. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Addiction, Slavery, and Police brutality

caelinsullivan's review

emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Child death, Addiction, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Police brutality, and Mental illness

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Eating disorder, Death, Colonisation, Classism, Racism, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Medical content, and Grief

librarybookscene's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Body horror

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Addiction

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder

annagwritesandreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

I personally had a tougher time getting through the first 100 pages of Blood Like Magic, but NOT with Blood Like Fate! I was invested from the beginning, 300 pages seemed to fly by in the blink of an eye, and I could NOT have predicted how this ended in a million years.

If you haven't read the first book, this would be a good point to stop reading this review. No major spoilers, but with this being the second book, there are some inherent ones!

We are still following Voya, who is now the Thomas Matriarch with TWO gifts. Justin is trapped in a NuSap body in the Thomas's basement, along with Keis being trapped in the house. Luc is not speaking to Voya still, the family doesn't trust Voya in the Matriarch role and then something happens: She looks into the future and sees ALL witches in turmoil, with Luc wishing it wouldn't have happened.

What I thoroughly enjoyed with this book was seeing the other witch families, going to their homes, learning their personalities, and seeing how they each felt about Voya's vision. I feel like their backstories were fleshed out and I was invested in every single character (good and bad of course).

I thought the ending with twisty and perfect, lovely, and a wonderful way to close out the duology. I would HIGHLY recommend :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

lilo_si's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, Blood, and Death

twistykris's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Addiction, and Eating disorder

Minor: Transphobia, Child abuse, Slavery, and Gun violence

zias's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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: Grief and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Eating disorder

theespressoedition's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Well, I did screw myself a little bit with this one, folks. After listening to the audio for the first book, I told myself that for the sequel I would for sure read it rather than listen to it... and guess who didn't follow through on that? This girl. Oops.

Okay, in my defense, I did a little of both--physical reading and listening. But I knew it was a chonky book and I would get through it quicker if I listened to it rather than tried to focus all my energy into reading it with my eyes. The only issue is that this is so full of fantastical depth and magic-building, that I lost a lot of it along the way (the same problem I had with the first book).

However, I also just don't think that this particular series is my jam. While there are parts of it that I really enjoyed (namely the diversity, dealing with the tougher topics like eating disorders and substance abuse, and grief), for the most part, I felt like it was a bit overwhelming. Sometimes it seemed like the author just wanted to cram as much of everything as possible into one plot and it seemed a little clunky.

I think that there are some really interesting things about these books but they just didn't wow me. They're good but not something I would reach for again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, and Murder