Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

20 reviews

ladysmartypants's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Police brutality

bookthief's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book follows a clever serial killer in the act of murder and in trial. There’s a plot twist of the killer being on the jury, but will the infamous Eddie Flynn find him before it’s too late. This book is intense and graphical.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Self harm

_terah_hansen_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Incest and Rape

lostcupofstars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This was good and had the potential to be a really excellent read. I don’t normally read crime fiction but this came highly recommended. The plot was really well thought out - even while knowing that the killer is on the jury, there are still a number of things that keep you on your toes. 
Where it let itself down was the character development. I know that this is #4 in a series of books about this same lawyer, but they can also be read a stand-alone books. I think there are way too many characters, very few of which are developed and this means that some of the parts that are supposed to be shocking don’t land the way they should. I found myself having to flick back to figure out who the reveal character was and what I had missed. 
The action scenes were also really hard to follow, a little bit too much was left to the imagination and I had to keep rereading paragraphs to understand what had happened.
THAT being said, I did enjoy reading this. The things I listed stopped it from being a 5 star read, but once I hit the 60% point I had to finish it and stayed up til 3am to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Car accident, Classism, Death of parent, and Hate crime

Minor: Homophobia, Terminal illness, and Rape

isabelatms's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcoholism, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

that_art_monster's review

dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Abandonment

_bellakoepp_'s review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The perfect cheesy crime thriller 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Police brutality, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Rape

keandrade04's review

adventurous informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Murder

atamano's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Blood, Murder, and Violence

bubblxgumwitch's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Me gustan los buenos thrillers y me gustan las series de juicios así que este libro me ha encantado.

Odio las reseñas que son: "buenísimo. engancha." En plan, ¿eso es lo mejor que puedes decir del libro? Pero bueno, para quien le interese: engancha. No solo engancha sino que tiene un ritmo muy bueno y la forma en la que está narrado, como una "batalla de ingenios", hace que sea muy emocionante de leer.

El autor es abogado y bastante self-aware de que su profesión es una performance: eso está plasmado tremendamente bien. Es como si el libro dijera: sit back and enjoy the show.

Solo le pongo una pega y es que la resolución del libro es un poco liosa y apresurada para mi gusto, pero fue un final muy satisfactorio. Además reconozco que me gusta cuando los libros intentan despistarte y hacerte pensar cosas que no son para que no resuelvas el misterio antes que el protagonista, pero es que este libro literalmente TE MIENTE. Estoy un poco escocida la verdad.

(Técnicamente es cuarto libro de saga, pero se lee perfectamente).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence