Reviews tagging 'Incest'

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson

24 reviews

inferiorwit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Incest, Death of parent, and Alcohol

li_reading's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Incest and Cannibalism

kestrel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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

3.5

The writing style was the best part of this book. I am mesmerized.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

None of the characters are related, but they keep referring to themselves as "sister", "son", etc. That's why I put incest as cw.

kait_sixcrowsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Rep:

• sapphic MCs
• achillean MCs
• m/f/f/m (but let's be real, it's more like f/f/m, lmao)

*I received an eARC in exchange for an honest review*

Y'all...this book. Oh my god, I love it. Seriously, it's so good. First, the way it's written? As if it were a letter (or series of letters) from Constanta to the unnamed lord that turned her into a vampire? It works!! So well!!! And the writing itself is beautiful and poetic and dark, laced with sadness even though you can feel the hatred seething underneath it all, and my goodness, this was. Amazing.

And the characters! I absolutely love Constanta and the two others who the lord changes, Magdalena and Alexi. They deserve all the good and happy things in the world, and I hope they get them. The ending was so good for them, and I'm so so glad it ended the way that it did.

There will be a full review on my blog later this week!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Incest, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Other warnings include: depressive symptoms; gaslighting