Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

34 reviews

adalinemccormick's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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: Death and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia

books_withblooms's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent, Self harm, Murder, Cancer, Child death, and Suicide

erikagibson126's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

😭😭😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Murder, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Car accident and Animal death

sam_the_panda's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Suicide, Child death, Grief, and Murder

readerperson's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

This story is absolutely wonderful. I had moments of laughing out loud, I had moments of tears, I had moments of reflection on my own life on dealing with grief, life decisions, choices, and being okay with the unknown.

I will say a trigger warning for this book is suicide, not graphic but discussed quite a few times, there is a warning at the front of the book but I would say an extra caution to those who this may be a sensitive topic for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide

bussmanbooks3000's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Cancer, Death, Child death, Blood, Animal death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

raptorq's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Murder, and Car accident

maxcooper's review

challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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

this is has to be one of the hardest books i’ve ever read. it was also one of the most beautiful. TJ Klune deserves all good things for that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

vvabecca's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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: Child death, Dysphoria, Grief, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Chronic illness, Confinement, Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, and Murder

sarah_shelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

Once again a fantastic book by TJ Klune. His narrators and characters all have such vibrant personalities. As soon as I started I knew I was going to love Wallace as much as I hated him because yes he’s awful in the beginning, but he has such a distinctive voice as well.

I was having such fun with the characters I completely forgot about the week-long deadline until it shows up near the end (minor spoiler, I guess?)

So much of this book is Wallace learning and growing, making connections with Hugo and Nelson and Mei, and adapting to the day-to-day life of Charon’s Crossing. There isn’t much of a plot until the back end of the book and usually that drives me crazy. But I enjoyed this book so much I hardly noticed (though once I did, the tension, questions, and emotional turmoil from the plot kicking in made up for my ensuing apprehension.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Death

Minor: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Blood, and Child death