Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Bloed en beenderen by Tomi Adeyemi

82 reviews

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racial slurs, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

Another TW: Colorism

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

vampire_burrito's review against another edition

2.5

a very intricate book, but the instalove and the fact it took me four years to finally read it, kinda ruined it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

spookieboogie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

cj13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

Easily one of the most moving, well-written books I've ever read. The world of Orisha springs up around you as you read, and the characters come to life before your eyes. I cannot wait for the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content

nico_asteri's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

The romance with Inan and Zeylie lost me a bit and Inan in general was a little all over the place. I felt like he changed his mind too quickly and could not really follow his logic ever. Maybe you weren't supposed to be able to but there were a few moments where I was so confused I thought maybe I had skipped over something. However that was fairly minor to me. His overarching story made sense and I think he was always going to want to kill magic. He just had too much abuse to overcome. Overall I really liked this book and loved the characters, especially Amari, I'm dying to know what her power is!! The magic system is super cool and I love that the main character has a more "creepy" power. I thought it was really well written and also Bahni Turpin did an amazing job performing the book. I knew whose chapter it was without even having to hear the title.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

nurseamandarose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Grief

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

theolivetree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

lucille_c's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ladybeldaran's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.25

This was a fun read with an engaging premise...but it wasn't as good as the hype led me to believe.

One issue I had is the pacing of the book - the characters visit multiple locations and little effort is made to create a transition from one to the next. A chapter will end with them in place A, and the next chapter will start with them in place B, with a single sentence further down the page indicating how much time has passed. This is a particular issue because there is a clear countdown/timer to the quest, and the lack of transition and sense of time passing leeches some of the tension from the narrative.

The characters were interesting, but the prince

waffles back and forth between the good guy and the bad guy

and it just gets old by the end.

All of that said, it really was a fun read, and I enjoyed the lore & magic that we see. I will be reading the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Police brutality, and Murder