Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab

48 reviews

missmali's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Blood, Violence, and Self harm

barda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Sexual content

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

This book was incredible and I didn’t realize how much I missed this world and the characters, how reading this book felt like coming home, this entire series just feels like a warm hug and I love it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, and Torture

shadowspinner's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Minor: Child abuse

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!

Can’t describe how magical it is to be back in this world. New and familiar characters are delightful. It definitely *feels* like the first book in a trilogy, with many threads (pun intended) left open for the next installment to pick up.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

hanz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I think I was anticipating this too much and I was never going to enjoy it as much as my expectations. That being said, I still really enjoyed it.

It feels much slower than the previous trilogy, but I think later books are going to be interesting. I liked that threads were an important theme throughout, including structurally with different story threads coming together towards the end, and I assume it will continue. 

The new characters are great and always wonderful to be back with Kell, Lila, Alucard and Rhy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Kidnapping, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

littletiramisu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Self harm, Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

stormeno's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Gore, Torture, Blood, and Child abuse

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

Schwab’s writing had really improved since writing the original trilogy. I’m not sure why I was under the impression that previous characters were going to be less of the focus, but that was not the case! For readers of the original series this is great because we all love those characters, but it does mean this cannot be read without having read the original trilogy. Which is fine! Perhaps I just had a wrong impression. There are new and interesting characters introduced, but I’d actually say more of the book takes place from old characters pov.

Having just read the original trilogy earlier this year I felt a lot of the story was spent explaining things that I already knew. Perhaps this was done for people who had read the series long ago, but I found those parts to be rather redundant. My other criticism is that Schwab tends to tell the same plot point from multiple characters’ POVs without really adding much in each case so there were parts that seemed repetitive plot wise. Overall the plot seemed to be setting up for the rest of this new trilogy.

This was clearly a labor of love for a world and characters the author truly loves. There were many squeal-worthy moments between old characters. Fans of the series will find a lot of fun in this book (hence my personal high rating for this book).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual content

ldockham's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Blood and Violence