Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Varsel by Stephen King

147 reviews

jamieleepilk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs

sunsetcity's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

booksbutmakeitgay's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

1.5

For me it was really, the blatant racism and use of the n word, the misogyny, the toxic masculinity, it was just yucky. Also the story was kind of meh and it wasn’t even scary.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, and Blood

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Grief

leanne's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Vomit

a_robin_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Information:

• Library ebook
• October readathon 
• Reading my first ever horror reading vlog

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Review:

This was my first ever horror novel and I loved it. Everything about this was great, from the characters to the writing the the spookyness. It was a right balance between slow pace and fast pace. Just really loved this.
Didn't give it the full 5 stars, because there were minor things that bothered me.

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Review previously placed on my blog:

I'm currently reading The shining by Stephen King. I'm reading this for the October readathon. 

I'm actually loving this so far. I didn't expect that. The writing, and translation; reading it in Dutch, are very good. The story itself is very interesting. So far it has been creepy, but not scary yet, so am excited about that part. But so far it's really good and it might even be a 5 star read.

It became pretty scary, but not too much; didn't have nightmares, which is good. There were a couple of small things that bothered me a little bit, so therefore not a full 5 stars, but a 4,5 stars. Check out my vlog for indepth thoughts: Reading my first ever horror book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Racism

ladykelsier's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs