Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Open Throat by Henry Hoke

22 reviews

sxndaze's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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? Yes

4.25

if you feel alone in the world 

find someone to worship you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

iszys's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Gore

Minor: Classism

cianishere's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Animal death

princessdana36's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Blood

chelseacrystal's review against another edition

4.5

Wow. Unbelievably impactful for such a short book. Sometimes funny and sometimes heart wrenching. I really had no idea what to expect but man, I’m absolutely blown away. It’s such a brilliant critique of the world and capitalism and hatred. Very well executed. 

(Definitely not a book for everyone though) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Blood

dugfromthedirt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

I loved this so much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual content

pennyforyourthoughts's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I read this book for a class, but I really enjoyed it. It wasn’t hard to get through, the only thing that slowed me down was the ending that I had known was coming. This made me sort of sad to read it but didn’t completely ruin the experience. I enjoyed the writing style and the POV of an animal is something I do a lot in my own writing so I enjoyed that as well. This novel was well researched, and did a good job of showing things how we think an animal would see them. It’s not something I would have picked up on my own, but it was really good.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

madelinelikethebook's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

mhh831666's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

this is PERFECTION. the cougar is so damn endearing and eloquent and believable as a storyteller despite being unable to express himself with words. I highlighted entire chapters at a time (granted the chapters were quite brief but still). also made me hate humans even more than usual but they for sure deserve it (in this book and irl tbh). long live big cats everywhere! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Death of parent, Classism, Blood, Violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Grief, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Gore, and Sexual content

thebookpaiges's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Animal death, and Animal cruelty