Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Опиумная война by R.F. Kuang

1873 reviews

snerk's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

victoriaashade's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Rape

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

kotacoyote's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Blood, Vomit, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

dezrdz's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Colonisation, War

gibgabgob's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark sad tense 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: Yes

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This is a book that starts grim and gets darker. A well written story that builds the world from the perspective of a main character who is also now learning the history of the world she lives in. Check trigger warnings before you get into it as there is a lot of dark topics that are talked about and described.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Blood

Minor: Rape, Self harm

maddykreed's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Abortion, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

saritahb23's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark sad tense 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: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

amiraw's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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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I kept thinking things were gonna get better... but they just kept getting worse. I went  hrough the six stages of Grief (Cruella iykyk) reading this book and it was amazing. I did read 3 found family books for therapy after though.

This book is brilliant. R. F. Kuang had me invested in the Characters and the world from the first page and I loved watching the MC grow and change as the story went on. I felt so many strong emotions while reading

(mostly hate and depression but that's irrelevant)

and if you ask me, that's the bread and butter of a good book. It was captivating from cover to cover, I could barely put the book down(for which most of my teachers hate me now), especially during the second half. But I will say that this is definitely not for sensitive people. If all the tags have deterred you, just trust me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Classism

thenyamartin's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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There are no words that I can string together to accurately describe the feelings I have after reading this book. All I can say is, if you want pain, I recommend this book. And that I am terrified of R.F. Kuang's pen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

reellyfish's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense 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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Jiang is my fav 🩵

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Blood

Minor: Sexism