Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

38 reviews

taylor_annotates's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, and Blood

bakerreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Tragic, haunting, dark, and beautiful.
This story is set in the near future, where most every wild animal is extinct. We follow Franny Stone, an unreliable narrator with a dark past, as she tracks the last known flock of Arctic terns on their final migration.
This story is fairly depressing, but there’s a found family aspect that I just absolutely adored and loved how the characters interacted with one another (for the most part). McConaghy is amazing at writing complex, and realistically flawed characters. This is a story about love, and loss, and finding your place in the world, and I thought it was perfect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

adotzam's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Sexual assault, Animal death, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

jessietn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.0

This was a quick read for me but by the end, I felt like I'd been through a journey. I didn't care much for the romance (at least its beginning), and parts of the plot were not believable. Otherwise, it was immersive, melancholic, and beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Stalking, and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual assault

andrea2813's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Murder, and Pregnancy

tinana's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual assault

babblingbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

So sad and hopeful and heart breaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Cancer

The sexual assault tag is for an attempted sexual assault, and there is some victim blaming by other characters towards the protagonist. In addition to the Suicidal Thoughts tag there is an attempted suicide which is described in some detail. The cancer mention is VERY brief, a side character explains why she shaved her hair, to fundraise for a cancer charity.

soubhi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• 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

Moderate: Blood, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts