Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Dracula by Bram Stoker

275 reviews

ameliethemoomin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

good god i love this book

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death, Blood, Xenophobia, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Medical content

Minor: Antisemitism, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Animal death, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

misuki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Sexism, Blood, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol, War, Antisemitism, and Sexual harassment

kjm19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Gore, and Misogyny

sopopia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Sexual harassment, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

avaa1000's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

The first four chapters is my favorite part of the book. Five stars for that, but 4 overall.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, and Death

Minor: Animal death

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Violence, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death

makiba's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

gossamer_lens's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Just absolutely loved this book. I have tried picking it up several times and gotten stuck on the first 10 pages where we get this letter written by a main character that starts with essentially, "everything will be detailed and thoroughly mundane but here we are". Of course, give it a minute and this turns into "oh shit, oh oh shit... what am I to do!" 

There are several POVs that are delightfully conveyed via missives and have various "newspaper clippings" and other information interspersed. It is a fun story with some delightful characters. I became thoroughly invested once I made it about 10% of the way into the book and I only put the book down when I had to read other things for book club and the like. 

I 100% enjoyed this and would recommend it to anyone! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Mental illness

carly_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

 I enjoyed this wayyyyy more than I thought I would. The themes of good vs evil, salvation, fear of desire (especially women’s desire), and masculinity were very interesting to explore. The book is a giant metaphor as you might imagine. It’s slow paced, but it still held my interest the whole way through. The characterization of the two female characters was of particular interest to me (considering the fact that the men were not able to save them, at least without Mina’s extensive help). All in all a fascinating reflection of the time in which it was written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Death, and Misogyny

finn_vibing's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Antisemitism