Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Air Awakens by Elise Kova

13 reviews

lavender65's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood

Moderate: Gore

literarymary95's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

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This book had an interesting concept but it felt like not much was happening until the last third of the book. I'm still going to continue reading the series, but the start of it was really slow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence, Blood, War

Minor: Genocide, Gore, Death of parent

blacksphinx's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

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Where do I begin... The protagonist's name being two random Norse words? The chapter that is Divine Rivals But Worse? And actual dialogue tag that is "demanded gently"? The love interest asking the protagonist if she's ever fucked a man or masturbated two pages after calling her a child? (She's seventeen by the way.) The way the love interest's entire personality changes chapter to chapter? (And no, the protagonist thinking "the two halves of his personality don't seem to fit" does not fix that.) Why does this love triangle have so many sides when it's crystal clear who she is going to end up with! 

I literally only finished this due to a reading challenge. The back 40% was better than the first 60%, but I cannot get over how bad it was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic

TW eye injury

morriganlefaye's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional funny sad 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

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The story is gripping and the writing flows pretty well, although definitely not as well as in Ms Kovas newer books. 
It's a bit rough around the edges and it took me a few chapters to really get sucked into the story, but in the end, I couldn't put the book down anymore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

akirokis's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, War

quietlyfierce's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

booksoflore's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Death of parent

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

samanthajones's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War

arock1013's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore