Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Power by Naomi Alderman

93 reviews

the_pysselfia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual harassment, War, Sexism, and Sexual content

hellenalawliet's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, and Rape

Minor: Blood and Death

scruffie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed reading this one, though the entire book is nightmare material (content warnings not to be taken lightly). Great pace, very tense, and adventurous. It draws attention to many social discrepancies and is full of female viewpoints and characters, which, in and of itself, felt refreshing.

That being said, I didn't appreciate the book's binary view on gender, the conflation of sex and gender, and the complete disregard for the multitude of gender identities; in this book "male" equals "man", "female" equals "woman", and that's all there is to it. Also, I had hoped that the book will have a more positive stance towards society; I've had my fill of the whoever-has-the-bigger-stick-must-oppress-whoever-has-the-smaller-stick point of view. That's alright though, I think the author delivered the narrative they chose pretty successfully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, War, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Drug use, Physical abuse, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Vomit, Excrement, and Trafficking

lhartjed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Misogyny, War, Domestic abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Torture, and Violence

sinsku's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Good: the characters and character building. 

Bad: very transphobic with the "it's biological" idea of the power. At least it's not discussed in the book at all beyond that. So. Plus didn't care much about the fact that the book seemed to tell the tale of "if women have power they abuse it and there's nothing you can do about it". A rather boring take on it to be honest. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Rape, Torture, Violence, War, Body horror, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

20sidedbi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

A BRILLIANT book in every way. Very similar style to Margaret Atwood but with Alderman's own genius shining clearly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Child abuse, Genocide, Blood, Death, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Violence, and War

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Child death and Trafficking

Because this book tries to explore what an inverse reality of sexism and violence would look like, Alderman does not shy away from the reality of sexualized violence. I don't think her descriptions were gratuitous or sexualizing of sexual violence, but they were unflinching.

rowan57's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

interesting read from a perspective i’ve never read before although didn’t enjoy the graphic violence or the anticlimactic ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Rape, and Sexism

chloebethx_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

Prior to reading this book I had seen quite a few negative reviews online about how vulgar and gruesome this book is, so I went into this reading experience very tentatively, but, after reading I have to disagree with all those bad reviews… this book is wonderful! Every single character we are introduced to had some kind of purpose and power in moving the plot along and Naomi Alderman really left no stone unturned, everything had it’s purpose! Love, love, love this book!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gore, Blood, Death, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

mvonmalmborg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and Blood

maddiebusick's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and War