Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Devotion by Hannah Kent

5 reviews

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

Had a hard time getting into it/staying focused on audiobook. Long chapters made it hard to pick up.

Interesting, unique story about a community of Prussian Lutherans escaping to Southern Australia to practice their faith.

Sadly not for me, it’s very slow and boring with the story just kinda dragging. After  160 pages I still don’t feel that interested or compelled to pick it up. And I also could not tell you much of what’s happened so far 🫣 It’s not interesting enough for me to keep reading especially with how long it feels like I’ve been reading it already 😅

This is the second book I’ve tried reading from Kent so she’s just not an author for me it seems-but I have no doubt others will enjoy this character driven, historical, queer love story 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Blood, Miscarriage, and Self harm

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Child death, Pregnancy, Sexism, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Misogyny

jesselopod's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, Death, Body horror, and Medical content

Minor: Body horror

ode_to_readers's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I really don’t know how to describe this book. It’s poetic and the story is truly profound. Two girls finding each other and falling in love, while living in an oppressed community. The story was a little too slow for my taste at the start, their boat journey (which was super intense btw and super realistic. Kudos to the author for always following the facts) only started about a third/halfway of the way in. Also there is quite an unexpected twist in the story I did not see coming! 

So while this story was incredible in its own way, I don’t think it was for me, hence the 3 stars. But I am still glad I read it! 

Also TW: animal slaughter, death, suicidal thoughts and attempts. (I personally found the pig scenes to be quite intense 😢)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Miscarriage and Alcoholism

jameslyons's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Colonisation, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia