Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan

23 reviews

dev921's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Death, Colonisation, Mental illness, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, War, Alcoholism, Blood, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

dfrancis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Racism, Violence, Grief, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Blood, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Self harm, Torture, Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Slavery

burnourhistory's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Vomit, War, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Infidelity, Slavery, Emotional abuse, and Chronic illness

Minor: Animal death

amberlfaris's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Slavery, Kidnapping, Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Blood

jillaay_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Classism, Racism, Slavery, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Child death, Grief, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Gore, Blood, and War

scifi_rat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Grief, Infidelity, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Confinement, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Death, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Racism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Child death, Classism, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Religious bigotry, Torture, Abandonment, and Excrement

bowbeforeloki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was so emotionally driven.  I couldn't put it down but it broke my heart

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gore, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Murder, Pedophilia, Genocide, Child death, Colonisation, Addiction, Classism, Mental illness, Racism, Trafficking, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Medical content, Rape, War, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Toxic relationship

kiercarnahan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

I was so good about keeping up with my Book of the Month picks last year but fell off in December and decided to try the audiobook of The Storm We Made instead. It was about Japanese occupied Malaya during WWII a facet of the time period in historical fiction I have never read about before. I learned a lot from it and it was overall difficult to listen to the struggle the people of Malaya endured during this time. The story follows different members of a family who are all suffering with the war in their own ways from the youngest daughter to the parents. Definitely an eye opening read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: War and Sexual assault

acarolinabelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

This is a sad tale of a family in Occupied Malaysia during WWII. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual violence, Addiction, Child death, Torture, War, Blood, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, and Alcohol

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Just barely a three. Wanted to like it more but I probably would’ve been better off DNFing it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Alcoholism, Confinement, Colonisation, Alcohol, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Murder, Child abuse, and Blood