Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

5 reviews

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Excrement, Incest, and Infidelity

queer_futomaki's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

reggiethebird's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

"Good fiction. Gooooooood fiction." - BDG

Really good gallows humor, and all of the plot threads braid together in a way that makes sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Blood, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and War

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

The ending for this book was much more interesting than in the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Torture, and Vomit

quail's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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, Cursing, Death, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia and Incest