Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

101 reviews

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

bexi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, and Animal death

shelvesofivy's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

Don't mind me, just literally crying over everything about this book 🥺
The art had me from page 1, and if possible, it just got even more beautiful. I loved the use of color to help move between the fairytale, the modern, and the flashbacks. And of course, the overarching story has me crying, but it's in a cathartic way ♡
I can't recommend this enough, regardless of what you usually read ♡ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Hate crime, Cannibalism, and Child abuse

readingmushrooms's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Grief, Blood, Murder, Violence, War, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

brightyoungthing's review against another edition

emotional reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Grief, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and War

conversion therapy

indeedithappens's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

simone_elizabeth's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Outing, Grief, Homophobia, Blood, War, and Death of parent

lilly_reads98's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.0

I liked the beginning and the art was really nice, but it got so weird and I stopped liking it halfway through. I liked the idea of the characters reading stories and I enjoyed the first one, the art is really nice and detailed. In the next stories they just got weird and dark and I just didn’t like them, it was an abrupt turn for the tone of the book to change so much? I also didn’t like how the characters faces are drawn, it makes them look like little kids but this is a young adult novel and it says the main character is 13. I feel like they’re drawn to look younger than that. 

I also did not like the abrupt ending, it just ended so randomly I did not know the last page was the last page. I just don’t like that feeling of not even knowing you’re on the last page and then realizing it and being like ok??

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

igorsaraiva's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted sad fast-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

4.75

Mermaids, Vietnamese culture, a gay kid and his mom, there's nothing more to ask from this graphic novel, the best standalone title I've seen in a while. Its a must read, specially for people that said heartstopper was weak, this has the simplicity and good vibes but the thicker plot. I may want to go to Vietnam now

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood