Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Kråkornas fest by George R.R. Martin

12 reviews

soumil_da_vinci's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

It's what they say...pieces of meat in a lot of bread...but hey it's a song of ice and fire and it's still fucking great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Child death, Sexism, Cannibalism, Blood, and Animal cruelty

kkalicky94's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, War, Slavery, Violence, Bullying, Cannibalism, Death, Excrement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Incest, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

studydniowka's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.0

It’s weirdly entertaining for so sexist and misogynistic white fantasy written for men who would like to see women closed in their homes and being available for them on any occasion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Torture, Violence, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, War, and Bullying

wallywoahjack's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Incest, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Body shaming, Slavery, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

pickledlettuce's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

A bit of a slow burn, but a great book. I loved seeing the varied POVs from around the Seven Kingdoms, and GRRM proves again that he is a master of character.

EDIT: I bumped it up to a five. Aside from Storm, this is the best character work I’ve read in a book. We get fantastic dialogue, inner voice, and POVs from cultures and characters we hardly ever see. The King’s Landing and Ironborn chapters were among my favs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual content, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Colonisation, and Sexual assault

Although it is not explicit, there are multiple mentions of adults saying sexually violent things about children. It’s brief, but be aware.

triangular_pascal's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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

5.0

This book was long but the further I got, the more connected everything became... Characters I once loved grew more annoying, and I began to have a soft spot for even those characters I used to hate. I cannot wait to continue reading asoiaf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Fatphobia, Murder, Ableism, Abortion, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Classism, Excrement, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, and War

ten_telegrams's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, War, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Incest, Miscarriage, and Slavery

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, Torture, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Gore, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, War, Abortion, Body shaming, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Child death, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Slavery

ninjasunknown's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence

booksnbarristers's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

SOME SPOILERS AHEAD. AS WELL AS COMMENTARY ON THE TELEVISION SERIES.
FAIR WARNING.

A Feast for Crows follows some of the least likable characters in the entire series, i.e. Cersei and the Greyjoys. Jamie continues his character development, and we get a good round backstory on Brienne. But Feast of Crows does feel at points like a filler for the series, rounding out some of the finer points of GRRM's world building, especially in places we rarely saw but heard of in the first 3 books: Dorne and Oldtown, of note.

Speaking of Dorne, this was the best part of the book. In the TV show, Dorne's involvement in the politics of the Seven Kingdoms is pretty much eliminated. Adding the Martell family and the true power they wielded as one of the Seven Kingdoms and putting the Martell family on equal footing as the other liege lord families (Lannister, Stark, Tully, Arryn, Baratheon, Tyrell) adds another chess piece to the board that is the Game of Thrones.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Incest, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual content