Reviews tagging 'Death'

Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu

19 reviews

theuerma's review

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Murder, Slavery, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Violence

nadiaherondale's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

The plot keeps thickening and more players enter the game, some revelations that I suspected became true and other plot twists shocked me. The art, as always is fantastic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Xenophobia, Torture, Death, War, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Body horror

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, and Death of parent

vr_alyssa's review

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Grief, Child abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Death of parent, Death, Slavery, Physical abuse, Violence, Torture, Body horror, and War

steppenfreak's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Child abuse, Body horror, and Blood

vincci's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Child abuse, and Violence

halfbloodprincess_hogwarts's review

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-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

4.5

I like that we are further introduced to this thing connected to M.

Seeing other types of characters with animalistic appearances was really cool. Especially M's family, for some reason I thought she was the sole member of the Halfwolves and was floored that a characteristics knew was her kin (not spoiling).

All I pray is that Little Fox stays unharmed because she puts so much trust into M. She better not break my favorite characters heart🥺🤬

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Bullying, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Violence, Self harm, War, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Cannibalism, Colonisation, and Confinement

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Cursing, Child abuse, Confinement, and Animal death

pastel_princess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Minor: War, Genocide, and Slavery

marlan's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Game of Thrones meets Lovecraft. Massive world-building and and cast of characters, but dark and surreal. It's a lot. Sometimes I struggle to follow everything, but the story is intriguing, the art is beautiful, and the characters - the characters are are so unique and given such backgrounds that you could take any one of them and put them in their own story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

house_of_hannah's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Once again the art is just perfection. I would own this even if I didn't like the story just based on the art. This volume does take a little ramping up, as I found the first chapter to just be ok, but each one after was just better and better.

I really enjoy the character designs, and how detailed they are. There is quite an extensive list of characters, but it doesn't feel overwhelming. Maika's companions have some of the best dialogue and interactions. There are also some cute/heartwarming scenes to balance out the horror/wartime ones.

We learn more about Maika's past, which is incredibly helpful in understanding the overarching storyline. This volume also gives off Pirates of the Caribbean vibes with the adventure that the main cast faces. Overall, I enjoyed this even more than volume 1, and I can't wait to jump into volume 3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Body horror