Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Kings Cage by Victoria Aveyard

41 reviews

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Classism

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

4.0

The only thing I love about these books is Maven. He is such a complicated character and I love him dearly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

PTSD

pastelbanana1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

ishouldbereading's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

Maven once again saved this horrible abomination.

Tell me why does Mare end up with Cal? He chose THRONE over HER TWICE!!! If a man does that he should be glad he doesn't have red mark on his face from my hand

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

amanda_mh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Once again I enjoyed the journey Victoria Aveyard took us on. Enjoyed following Mare, and the addition of Cameron and Evangeline’s perspective was fascinating! Will be reading the fourth book soon!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and War

lavendarcatt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Blood and War

robin_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

yourfellowbookworm22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

This book was really good I honestly couldn’t put it down and really fell for the plot and characters, beautiful development and I loved the different POVS that were newly represented. :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, and Blood

dontwritedown's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.25

I have been blazing through this series and for good reason, it's enjoyable and has decent word-building.

That being said while the Red Queen series didn't suffer from the second book syndrome in Glass Swors, King's Cage DEFINITELY suffered. There were multiple times were I suffered from what I call a reader's block, where I can pinpoint the part in the story where the author works themselves into a corner and desperately tries to claw out of it. 

Secondly, where I feel Glass Sword makes up for lack of representation in Red Queen, I feel like King's Cage takes a few steps back seeing as

only villans are portrayed as being LGBT

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But it's still worth a read and it's a highly enjoyable one too!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Pregnancy

bryelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Book 3 in the Red Queen series. The book continues with Mar as a prisoner of Mavin. This book has multiple perspectives which is really nice being able to get more view of what is happening during this point of war. Again this books leaves off on a cliffhanger with Cal having to make a big decision. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Classism