Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Flames of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins

22 reviews

ka_ke's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

Flames of Chaos is definitely chaotic. The story seems very chunky, there could have been smoother transitions and I wish it had taken a little more for the characters to love/hate one another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Car accident, Child death, and Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

marissafurbay's review

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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Violence, and Torture

samigabrielle's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Stalking, and Abortion

robinainthood's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

This was...... something. I was very tempted to give this book a one star but, like, here's the thing; it was entertaining. Albeit, in the same way shitty reality tv is entertaining. Like, "God, these people suck and this is such garbage content but why can't I stop watching?" 

Anyway, this book is fun to read if you don't take it seriously--and especially if you hate read it with friends or something--otherwise just skip this one, I think. It's way too long to be this bad.

(Also, that disclaimer at the beginning was such a red flag to begin with. "caveman-like asshole" ???? ma'am???)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

rachachisaur's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

0.5

The writing is truly terrible. At least half of the paragraphs are simply restatements of the previous paragraph, as though the author wrote out the concept in different ways and for some reason never deleted the drafts. Every other word is “f*ck” as though the author thinks that makes up for a lack of creative dialogue. There are several times where the ridiculousness of what is written fully rips you out of the book. The is almost no plot for the first 90% of the book, and each scene is just another setting up for more sex. Definitely read the content warnings. None of the periphery or side characters develop a personality until the end of the book, when you kind of think you may eventually like one or two of them. I almost dnf’d several times, but other reviews insisted it was worth slogging through to the end. 

Despite all of this, the last 10% of the book finally remembers that plot is a thing and sweeps you up into an actual story. I will read the second one, but with the lowest possible expectations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

katevhutchinson's review

I have absolutely no idea how this book made it to print. It feels like an author sat down with a bottle of wine and wrote it in a night?
I feel like, had it had time and energy spent in it, it could have had real meaning and substance. Except it was all f*** and c*** which isn't really a plot? And heavens, don't get me started on the dialogue, four pages of back and forth that could have been half a page.
Bottom line, just as everyone says, the only reason I made it this far was because it was a train wreck I couldn't look away from. Buh-bye.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

deesquared's review against another edition

challenging dark funny tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book is dark. But still manages to be compelling. 

Draws on inspiration from various mythology but Hutchins makes it her own, the storyline mostly gets interesting in the second half of the book. 

Enemies to lovers but actually enemies. Is this a bully romance? 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, and Alcohol

Minor: War and Cannibalism

applejacksbooks's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

 
Not really sure how I ended up finishing this book. The plot was basically nonexistent until the last 25% of the book and for a book that's almost 600 pages, that was a mess to get through. The tension between the main two characters was good, but the plot needed to be more compelling to make me want to continue with this series. Also, the plot twist at the end would have been more surprising if the POV hadn't switched to Knox for a few chapters. Those just didn't need to exist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

readwithelle's review

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent

bitsofberries's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship