Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey

10 reviews

inkwell_god's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

I LOVED this book. I borrowed it from the library and now I can't wait to buy my own copy. This book is absolutely wonderful. If you like lesbians and ruffians, I implore you to pick up this book and give it a shot

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Torture, Blood, Classism, Grief, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Classism, Lesbophobia, and Vomit

amberinpieces'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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Sexism, Murder, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Classism, Alcohol, and Gun violence

Minor: Colonisation, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

mirireads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Physical abuse, Murder, Torture, Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Gun violence, Vomit, Cursing, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Forced institutionalization

phoenixhorizon's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Not bad, pretty good ya romance. I didn’t realize it was loosely based on real people until the end. A bit slow at the beginning but really picks up at 30%.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Domestic abuse

rowan92579's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Murder

radler's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Death, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, Body horror, Murder, Grief, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury

wizardingwisteria's review

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

This was a pretty fun read. I noticed in the author bio that this author also likes to write video game narratives and I felt like that shined through in the writing style. I greatly enjoyed the writing style although the two leading ladies can be difficult to distinguish at times. A few times I had to flip back a few pages and check the perspective because their inner voices are a little too similar.  Other than that I felt like the narrative was easy to glide through. If there ends up being a sequel I would be interested in picking it up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Blood

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I know, I know, books are about more than just the romance BUT this romance — damn. While the story felt so big and monumental, the romance was so precious. It felt exactly like all my sapphic romances have been, just two best friends slowly falling for each other. It's the rec string through the book, that keeps this characters going: their love for each other. To be honest, I wasn't even the biggest fan of the plot but this romance means so much to me <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Suicide

Minor: Death, Sexual content, and Abandonment

rey_therese07's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Vomit

Minor: Murder and Colonisation

foreverinastory's review

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

Ugh I loved this so much!!

Rep: Spanish-Peruvian sapphic female MC, biracial Dutch-Peruvian (indigenous) lesbian female MC, Spanish cishet male side character with gout who uses a walking aid, Spanish and Peruvian cast, mute Peruvian female side character who uses sign language. 

CWs: Alcohol consumption, blood, body horror, colonisation, cursing, death, grief, injury/injury detail, kidnapping, lesbophobia/lesbomisia, misogyny, murder/ritualistic murder, sexism, suicide, violence. Moderate: past death of parent(s), chronic illness, fire/explosion, forced institutionalization (at a convent), gun violence, pregnancy mention, religious bigotry, sexual content (not graphic). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Alcohol, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Blood, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content