Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey

29 reviews

sarah_of_bramblewood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Blood, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, and Murder

saara_ilona_muu's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

ches2496's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A tense, post-apocalyptic thriller. I starting the book after seeing the advertisement for Silo on Apple TV and it was totally worth the read. It got a bit slow in the middle, but picked up nicely at the end. I found the plot unpredictable, and to the last page I was never sure how things would turn out. The world building was intriguing and in-depth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

kirchnerkd's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Murder, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

witchy_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

This is an amazing read, and I am so happy I took a chance and read it. There are so many lovable (and unlovable) characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, War, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy and Incest

banjo_bunny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Medical content, Murder, War, Death, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Blood, Cursing, Vomit, Gun violence, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Implied underage sexual relationship

loverrbboy's review against another edition

adventurous dark

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

this took me forever to get through but that says nothing about how excellent it is!!!! this universe is so interesting, i love speculative fiction and this is a take that’s new to me…. lucas x juliette forever .. i will be reading the sequel ASAP!!! 

- normalized human composting 
- successful circular economy 
- anticapitalist riots
- secret taboo relationships 

what more could u want 

cw for asphyxiation, running out of air, drowning, claustrophobia etc 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Confinement, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

wthanyell's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

The first few chapters of this book really got me into this one, Hugh Howey sure knew how to write a hook. The characters HAD me, I was invested in them and then the rug got pulled out from under my feet.

I will admit to being a pretty impatient reader - as soon as I became aware of the premise of this book I was flipping ahead in pages to find an explanation. I love to spoil it for myself what can I say? However, the fact that I had to do this so many times goes to show that this book has many twists and turns that will have you turning the (many) pages.

Despite this books length, I felt it was necessary to get to where it did. Towards the end I did really notice how many holes were left for further books in the series - which I am not a massive fan of in novels but what can you do.

I thought I'd seen every kind of dystopian novel out there but here's another one to put on your list Hunger Games / Divergent / Maze Runner / The Road / 1984 girlies.

Characters 7
Plot 9
Writing/style 6
Enjoyment 7
Overall rating 3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Suicide, and War

Minor: Cursing, Alcohol, Animal death, and Blood

readerette's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Rereading this and loving it just as much as the first time. It brings forth all the emotions in a world that at first seems different from our own but ends up with many parallels both inspiring and haunting. Well written and immersive. 

The ending might be a little pat, but the journey to get there is so deftly traveled that I honestly don't know that it matters how the story ends. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War, Blood, Suicide, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Infertility, and Grief