Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

94 reviews

martu_pm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Infidelity

winedarkwords's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Murder

renniewest's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

so insanely slow paced, but well worth it. but i found it tended to lull in some areas and then rush through introducing new things that i would have liked to have been explored more. 

it’s an incredibly well written book, and kept me constantly engaged, interested and eagerly waiting to see how it was going to end, yet not wanting it to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Grief

lghrndn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident

marie's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Homophobia

danuu's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

If there were an option for negative stars id give it -5 out of 5. I’m surprised no one talks about all the casual racism in this book. Not a single review I've seen mentions the fact that the writer uses slurs casually throughout the book most of which are the main characters inner dialogue. not to mention several characters are referred to as nothing more then their race. The “Dickensian” style of writing is what everyone praises yet the descriptions last pages for no reason at all while barely describing anything at all. they are long and overly done just to be long. it would be different if the descriptions were actually well written and long but they are just long. None of this book was well written. the plot is slow and almost nonexistent, the characters are either terrible people or stereotypes  with no personality and the only form of “development” came through time jumps. one second hes having life problems and in dispair and the next is a time jump and is considered “developed”. Not to mention the book is supposedly based on this painting yet the painting is barely in the book. even his worry about the painting barely makes an appearance. i could go on for pages and pages about whats wrong with this book but by then it’d be as long as the goldfinch and honestly probably more fun to read. The time ive spend reading this i would have rather spent kicking rusty nails with my bare feet. i hope the only people who have to read this are violent inmates and Donna Tartt herself because i truly don't think even she’s read this. I really want to know DOES SHE HAVE AN EDITOR ?? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Hate crime

teresareads's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Stalking, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, and Vomit

kaczorlantz's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Violence

erinlouise7's review against another edition

reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment, Car accident, Cursing, and Gaslighting

noa_27moony's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.0

i hated this so much
don't know how people can say this is their favorite book it was so looooong and FOR WHAT REASON
honestly the only good thing was boris (at times) and that's it
the only reason i'm still rating this stars is because i read it completely and didn't dnf it and for that to have any meaning i need to rate it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Blood, Addiction, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Vomit