Reviews tagging 'Blood'

More Than This by Patrick Ness

27 reviews

patato's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Physical abuse, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Blood

guacomoli0809's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts

arlorees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

I struggled with the first 70 or so pages feeling slow or like not much was happening, but when the first of many plot twists occurred I couldn't put it down. Give it a chance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Murder, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Gore, and War

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.75

"It was suddenly as if, for the briefest of moments, the burden had been lifted, like there was no gravity at all, like he had finally set down the heavy load he’d been carrying.. "
Hard to write a review of such a character oriented book. No surprise that I loved this book. Patrick Ness has a way of pulling you into the story every time. All the snipets of the past were so good even when it broke my heart. Love it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Outing, Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping, Blood, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Death, and Medical content

goldyyy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Suicide attempt, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, Homophobia, Murder, Deportation, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

_kathill's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

There were plenty of elements that I enjoyed about this book: suspense, general plot and tropes, the feeling of “more than this” that was provoked by wanting to know what happened next. A few things like character development (Tomasz’ english was a big one) could have been better for me. Overall a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Suicide attempt, Violence, Blood, Gore, Homophobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Gun violence

beetlemortis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicide, Physical abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Outing, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, and Fatphobia

katrinarose's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

Such a unique and interesting book! I love the blend of sci fi, contemporary, and existentialism. There were a lot of points where we don’t know what is going on, but neither does Seth, so it really feels like we’re figuring everything out (or not) with him. The character development was great too. Although the ending was satisfying for me, I could see why people would want more, and I do wish there were a bit more answers for some things (but that was also kind of the point). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Outing, Child death, Death, Murder, Stalking, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

jolibon4e's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

2.5

The world built was somewhat derivative, and while the general idea is solid, at the end I am left with too many questions and uncertainties to like it.

Like, what was with all of the coincidences? Is it a made up world or not at the end? Why did the driver heal him? What is the driver? Is there any hope in either of those worlds?? Kind of, even philosophically I don’t see the point of things. Also, I like Tomascz, but he does not sound like a kid, and not a Polish kid that learned English from movies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Child abuse, and Blood

bunny_bee_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad medium-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: Gore, Suicide, Homophobia, Bullying, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Death, Child death, and Blood