Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell

15 reviews

isabelsophiex's review against another edition

dark emotional

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Blood

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abortion, Blood, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Minor: Death of parent

abbiexhope's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Abortion, and Body horror

Moderate: Infidelity and Medical trauma

batforanna's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abortion, Blood, and Murder

scribblinginthemargins's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A deliciously gothic Victoriana read, just the right amount of spook. A high body count and mildly gory in parts but gripping storytelling all the way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, and Abortion

Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Gaslighting

ellenigrace's review

dark emotional mysterious tense

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

4.75

Exactly my vibe, but Part V onward felt a little extraneous to me and could have been covered in a  brief epilogue without losing the tension and catharsis of those paragraphs just before Part V.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Grief, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

Moderate: Abortion

ohennui's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Abortion

Moderate: Suicide, Pregnancy, and Death

catanami's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abortion, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit and Grief

anewton's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Picked up this book as a random find at the library. Went in with no expectations. A truly chilling, haunting story, great foreshadowing and use of literature, complex characters and shocking twists and turns. Graphic at times, so definitely not for everybody but I thoroughly enjoyed this. Think black swan vibes but with better built characters and story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion, Gore, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Pregnancy

findingthefantasticstory's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

I picked this up as the blured mentioned two thing's: theatre and Greek gods. I. Surprised to say that I haven't read many books based on the theatre  I was really interested to see what this was like, especially mixed with actors making deals with gods. 

This did have a very slow start. But once it got going I was unable to put it down.

It does get graphic with some scenes but i wouldnt call or horror, its more disturbing and it may trigger some people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Suicide, and Abortion