Reviews tagging 'Blood'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

85 reviews

kjm_x's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Death

rainbowskate's review against another edition

mysterious 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Addiction, Blood, Alcohol, Abandonment, and Gun violence

levtolstoy's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

Bawled my eyes out. Never saw that coming. Throughout the reading you have a feeling that somthing (or everything) is wrong, but you never know exactly what for sure. Until you do. Beautiful book. Will definitely reread it someday (when I'm healed).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Animal death, Addiction, Blood, and Death

Minor: Dementia and Racism

janareadss's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

good plot twist

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical trauma, Blood, Death, Grief, Animal death, and Racism

amiahslibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Addiction, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

nicoleanaisx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.0

Found it hard to empathise and relate to any of the characters. It was only in the last part that the story came together and I could piece things together, which is why it upped a star, but I usually like being captivated all the way through and this didn’t do it for me. Glad I read it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Animal death, Child death, Alcohol, Blood, Chronic illness, Dementia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, and Toxic relationship

maddie_reads346's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.25

This book was not my favorite. The plot twist was definitely not expected, but I was expecting something bigger. Cadence, the main character, is really annoying. She is just obsessed over Gat and is really seaking for sympathy a lot of the time. The character development was also nonexistent. The rest of the characters didn’t make me feel attached into the book. The writing style was also very different from what Im used to, and I did like the writing style in the middle to the end, but in the beginning it was super confusing. This book is pretty faced paced and it is short, so if you want to just read to get it off of your tbr, then I guess you could read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Child death

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Racism, and Violence

souvlakisuperfan's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

i would’ve liked it more if it wasn’t for the insufferable hype surrounding this book. i felt like in my entire experience i was waiting for the plot twist, looking between every sentence to see if i could find foreshadowing. still, even without the hype, i felt the writing to be corny and juvenile sometimes. not juvenile in an immature way, but in the way where i could tell the writer was trying to be “deep” and sound mysterious and professional. the characters were the strength of this book. the relationship between gat and cadence was the only thing really pulling me back to it. i didn’t find the plot twist to shock me as much as i was hoping. i did not throw my book across the room. i see the appeal and i can understand why some people adore it so much. everyone gets shocked to varying degrees and although i wasn’t extremely surprised i see that some people could find the twist more unpredictable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Blood, Racism, and Vomit

junkxe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood