Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

13 reviews

lesejaguar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

boglord's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Fatphobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body shaming, Self harm, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Excrement, Confinement, and Addiction

eliaa's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

really loved this, only marked down bc of the dead wife backstory fridging and bc I don’t rly like how it ended, but really strong over all

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gore, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Cursing, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use

actuallyahorsereads's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

Is Christopher Paolini okay?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Death, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Self harm, Medical trauma, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Violence, Religious bigotry, Racism, Grief, and Blood

emakay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Violence, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

that_boi_eliza's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit and Gun violence

menacingmarble's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Very stressful read. I had to put it down for a few weeks. It's 
 THUDS
the way that things 
THUDS
get interrupted often is what really got me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Blood, Gore, Murder, and Violence

herceia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

The only reason I finished this was bc I love Paolini as an author. The Inheritance Cycle is my favorite series. However, I would have stopped at about a third of the way through if I didn't have this weird loyalty to him. I almost stopped anyway at several points beyond that. I gave it a 1 because the story was actually pretty interesting to me when the main character, Alex, wasn't in his woe-is-me mood (which was very often. Too often. Almost unbearably often.). 

My main complaint with this book is how utterly upset and despondent Alex is for the entire book. We get it, your wife died and you're sad. You're really about to make your attitude everyone else's problem? I also have complaints about the character of the people he's traveling with. At this point, you think they'd send a better-vetted group out on missions like this. 

The struggles in the book were very real, but I was almost too distracted by Alex's feelings to feel any compassion for any of their situations. That was frustrating during the read bc I really wanted to feel for them, but just couldn't. 

This book is a close look at humans in extreme and unknown conditions, and for that, the book is a 2. I was missing anyone or any thing, thought, or feeling to root for. I could have had about fifty pages less of self-pity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Grief

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

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

ne0n_ange1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Death

smoakwithwifi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

Moderate: Death, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders