Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

39 reviews

justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

3.75

 “Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives.”

This book took a whole lot of twists and turns that I wasn't expecting, and I'm not sure I liked all of them, but at the end of the day, it served it's purpose as the climax of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

ashleynp24's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, and Torture

lucyford's review

dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

As always, I really enjoyed this book. It’s probably my second favorite out of the whole series, and definitely was the hardest to wrap my head around, but I loved it nonetheless. Jennifer Lynn Barnes perfectly wrapped up the series in this book, and I loved seeing everything gradually get resolved, and questions get answered, particularly about Cassie and Lia’s lives (plus Michael was extra unhinged). Overall, I’m so glad I read this series and I couldn’t have asked for a better final book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Self harm, Infidelity, and Rape

carsonbailey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Abandonment, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

just_klaudia's review

dark emotional sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

namenotimportant's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.75

Wow. I don't have words for this, except for wow. 
I think this was my favourite book out of the four. The profiling, the process, the emotions?! I did not expect the plot twist(s) in the end. 

I loved that Lorelai came back, I was scared that she wouldn't.

All of the Naturals, Briggs, Sterling, Judd, they all grew on me. I felt like in this book I learnt a lot about Sloane.
Overall, this was incredibly intense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Rape, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Gun violence and Self harm

tbwhite23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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: Death, Grief, Murder, Blood, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Torture

ong's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I pride myself in being able to predict where things are going in shows, movies, books. This book literally had me in the first half, thinking I’d guessed where it was going. But holy shit. NOTHING could’ve prepared me for that ending.

The best part of this series is how it keeps me guessing & on my toes. And the fact that the teens sounds like real human beings, not way too exaggerated, if a little fucked up. Very 3 dimensional characters. The plot flows real well too. Definitely one of my fav series now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death of parent

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Drug abuse, Grief, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Child abuse, Child death, and Pregnancy

mrsalexisrjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-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? Yes

5.0

The finale. I actually postponed reading this one because I was still processing the last one. I read this in two sittings. I read chapter one on one day and the rest in another day. It’s a book that you can’t put down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Torture, Violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Drug use

lyla_wicks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

really didn’t expect that plot twist! loved the strong friendships made, but do wish that we saw a bit more of the romance, and of the other characters’ relationships too

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Torture

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape