Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

8 reviews

simonlorden's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

Bess is a witch's daughter during the witch hunt, a doctor during Jack the Ripper's murders, and a doctor during the first world war. Those were my favourite parts, the lives of people in these historical periods, although the book was darker than I thought it would be. There's multiple explicit sexual assault scenes, as well as bloody murder and adults and children dying of the plague.

I have two pet peeves with this book that I couldn't get over while reading:
1. Idk what Publishers Weekly is on, but an immortal woman living linearly through 300 years is not time travel. This is not a time travel story.
2. The blurb in the book says the present-day timeline is in 2012, but in the book it's actually 2007.

These are both small things, but they felt like kind of lazy mistakes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Blood, Death, and Murder

exrthalex's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

I enjoyed this book, but mostly loved the characters. At a certain point, the plot became a bit predictable; although, I did like the story and ending. The characters were the best part: I loved to love the protagonists and loved to hate the antagonist. I look forward to reading the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, War, Death, Death of parent, and Rape

Moderate: Blood and Violence

willa_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Rape, War, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Medical trauma

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

3.0

This book wasn't bad but it wasn’t great either. I was bored at times and I don't remember much of the book, but I remember being frustrated a bit with some of the choices being made. Don’t even get me started with Bess having a romance with an on the page rapist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexual harassment and Toxic relationship

taelajoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Murder, Stalking, Death, War, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Torture, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, and War

phoenixfaie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

skylar_river's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Murder, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Toxic relationship