Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Les aventures d'une lady rebelle by Mackenzi Lee

30 reviews

elliizzzabeth's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

4.0

Enjoyable second installment in the Montague siblings series. I don't think it was quite as good as the first book but that may be because I found Monty a lot more loveable than Felicity. She is so painfully "not like the other girls" and the first half of the book beats you over the head with the fact that she is a woman and so the men ignore her. Once the story got going, it was just as exciting and fun as the first. I also liked the discussions of Felicity's (what I assume is) asexuality. Looking forward to the 3rd installment :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Blood and Misogyny

Minor: Drug use

Obviously Felicity wants to become a doctor and so there is a lot of discussions of medical procedures as well as her tending to some serious injuries which often involve a lot of blood.

violet_pages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Medical content, Misogyny, Blood, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Kidnapping, Addiction, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal death, and Colonisation

Minor: Slavery, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Chronic illness

elephantshoes4's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood and Death

kharlan3's review against another edition

(ace, adventure, fantasy, YA, regency). This book made me laugh aloud multiple times, which is rare. I was so scared Felicity was gonna fall in love and not be ace, she didn’t (thank goodness). I liked her self discovery journey a lot, and her “even feminine girls are cool and strong and amazing” arc even more. There was a smidge more gender essentialist language (women can handle blood because periods) than I would have liked, but it felt era-realistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Blood and Medical content

adelal's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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

4.5

This was amazing and I’m so mad sea monsters are not real and I can’t pet one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, and Sexism

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Slavery, Kidnapping, and Chronic illness

bluejay21's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia

myarae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Medical content, and Sexism

fraanini's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.25

Honestly I’m here at johanna knocking the ✨I’m not like other girls✨ out of felicity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Animal death

mairead_parade's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted 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

4.25

A solid installment in a series that’s a lot of fun - I didn’t get as bogged down in anachronisms as I did in the first book, and it was very gratifying to check back in with Monty and Percy. There are some really insightful conversations between the characters about internalized misogyny and policing femininity that still feel totally in character and doesn’t get in the way of a very fun pirate adventure and compelling mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Medical content

Moderate: Sexism and Drug abuse

hmatt's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

This one lost me midway though. The change in tone

, basically at the point where they leave Zurich on,

made it feel like 2 separate books to me. And, while I appreciate the ~strong female lead/ace rep/all of that, of course I do, most of it seemed very heavy-handed and clunk-ily stuffed into the narrative via long internal monologues from the main character. 

Perhaps this is another case of me not loving YA as a genre but continuing to read it because it is both more lighthearted and includes a wider variety of queer narratives than the other genres I like...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexism, Medical content, Blood, Acephobia/Arophobia, Misogyny, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death