Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Road of Bones by Christopher Golden

14 reviews

noczombie's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Murder

keenanmaree's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, Vomit, and Car accident

kitkat_reads93's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Body horror, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Child death, Murder, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

jbk77's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.25

Not what I was expecting. Starts a little slow to build on characters but back half of the book is fast paced.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, and Blood

Death is a theme, partial phantasm and folklore

ifoundcallie's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book blew me away…This is a masterclass in writing that imbeds dread into your bones and causes horror so profound that you can’t do anything but silently scream. Chilling. I could write a whole dissertation on how awed I am by this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Car accident, Animal death, Child death, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Self harm, and Pedophilia

Animalistic body horror, freezing to death, heart attack, frostbite, desolate location

sambo_0103'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

junixthebibliotaph's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

This book will give you goosebumps. It's written similarly to a found footage documentary, and has multi-pov. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

vj_thompson's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious sad tense slow-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

2.5

The first part of the book was great and was set up to be a bone chilling supernatural story. After the folklore is first introduced, I was lost and became very uninterested in the read. I was confused and didn’t understand where the book was going. The one character I wanted to live, they died. I would have much rather read a scary ghost story instead. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Vomit and Car accident

bookeduntil's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child death

Minor: Car accident and Vomit

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Kidnapping, and Child death