Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Betty, by Tiffany McDaniel

55 reviews

floppyleaves's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Rape, Incest, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/injury detail, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexism, Self harm, Grief, Animal cruelty, Racism, Violence, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Death of parent, Colonisation, Bullying, Animal death, and Abortion

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, and Body shaming

sophieheinrichs's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

evetucker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Medical trauma, Animal death, Death, Racism, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Incest, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Rape, and Suicide attempt

donutcome4me's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Mental illness, Hate crime, Bullying, Blood, Animal death, Child abuse, Torture, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Child death, Incest, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Self harm, Rape, and Emotional abuse

helloitsjulz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-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

This book was almost perfect, and I believe it will become a modern classic. I think it needed an editor in a few parts - the bible versus and the newspaper didn't work for me. I also felt that there were a few times where McDaniel qualified the absolute bombs she was dropping. Say it with your chest!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Drug use, Racism, Child abuse, Incest, Racial slurs, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Self harm, Blood, Drug abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

zaracampbell's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Possibly the most beautiful prose I have ever read. Easily in my top 3 books ever. 

Grappled with some very dark themes with authenticity and honesty. A testament to the raw and inherent strength of women, even more so in a time period that discredited their power.

I never wanted this book to end. It was one of those books where you want to highlight everything and commit it to memory so you never let the words leave you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Self harm, Racism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Injury/injury detail, Incest, Grief, Physical abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

marga_runa's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Animal death, Bullying, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol and Addiction

ienbdri's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

i read a little life in july and betty was still the worst and best and hardest book to read this year. pls check trigger warnings beforehand though (:

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Death, Hate crime, Incest, Rape, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, Racism, Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Homophobia, Misogyny, Child death, and Injury/injury detail

mmccombs's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

I normally love books that hurt me but… something didn’t land for me with this one. Every single chapter seemed to house a new horror that Betty had to witness or experience, and I guess I can’t say too much because this is based off of real life, but it was just brutal. And it was brutal in a way oftentimes smothered what light and love did exist in the story. I never felt like I understood Betty as a person outside of the tragedy that was her life (and mostly she was just recording traumatic events that happened to her family members, so I thought it was weird that she was the narrator, the emotional weight just wasn’t quite there ever??). Landon was the most interesting and well rounded character, and even then sometimes he just felt like a caricature of a person (and like… did he know and not do anything about it?? Could that have been investigated a bit deeper??). I didn’t understand the newspaper clippings/the final reveal at the end, it took up a lot of space for very little pay off. The writing was beautiful and I loved what this book had to say about storytelling, but I’m unsure if this was worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Child death, Pedophilia, Abortion, Death, Incest, Rape, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, and Racism

sarahsverse's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Gaslighting, and Incest