Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

69 reviews

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child death

_cooper_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is such an amazing adventure across the 12 realms of Ifueko’s world and a brilliant exploration of what it means to love, belong, and shape one’s own destiny. The ending wasn’t my favorite, but that doesn’t take away from how great this novel is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape and Sexual content

rhm04's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Kidnapping

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, and Classism

lizzyc_16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

kaziaroo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content, Violence, and War

nutmegandpumpkin's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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

5.0

I really really loved this book. I haven’t read a fantasy such as this in a while. The rich worldbuilding really brought the whole book to life. 
The cast of characters is not only diverse in skin color / ethnicity but also in sexualities, religion, and physical appearance. For instance, there is a character that is asexual, characters that have crushed on both female and male characters, a blind character, and a character that wears a headscarf.
Only thing about the book that was meh: sometimes it was a bit frustrating and had me rolling my eyes and yelling at the characters at some points for not noticing certain things that felt very obvious (however this happened only a couple of times and wasn’t enough for me to doc the rating).

Would definitely recommend!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

tired_cicada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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

I honestly cannot say enough good things about this book! It got me out of a 3-year reading slump! It's the first print book that I'd read in a very long time!

The characters are so fun! All of their conversations felt very realistic! They did things that surprised me in the best way, and the things that didn't surprise me were done so beautifully that I didn't even care that I guess the plot point! I actually was taking a young adult literature class at my University this year and I chose this book to be my focus. I gave him many presentation and told people what I think that it should be added on to their TBR basically. I think that this book is simply amazing! Everything from the cover, to the characters, to the story, everything about this book was amazing! I am so excited for the sequel... But I read in the synopsis about the sequel and I'm worried that there might end up being a 🤮 love triangle. So we'll see how we do with that!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood and Death of parent

Minor: Rape

chelseawrites21's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.75

 'Peace comes when stories are celebrated, not erased." -Tarisai, Ch.29, ph 289
 

Good book with beautiful writing and worldbuliding. But as the book slowed down I think my interest kind of waned. But all in all, the world in the book is so beautiful with unique places, cultures, trials that the characters go through. There was a lots of character development with them confronting their trauma and gaining self confidence. 

I liked the idea of the council siblings and the Ray and how they could speak to each other through it. I like how they each was Appointed their own part to play in the world. I also like how the each have their own Hallow, a supernatural gift, like Kirah with healing and Tarisai with seeing memories. It's awesome and unique to each of them. 

The down fall is that it was too slow paced for me and I wished we got learn about the other council siblings outside of Kirah, Dayo and Sanjeet, but overall it was a really good book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood