Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Sadie by Courtney Summers

137 reviews

kecasey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcohol, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Addiction, and Pedophilia

alexandcats14's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

Heartbreaking. Gut wrenching. This book is so so so so so important in so many ways. I will never forget Sadie. No more dead girls. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Violence

paris_nicole's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

3.75

I listened to the audiobook, which had a high production quality. The story is partly told from the perspective of a podcast and it was as if you were listening to an actual podcast (intro music, interviews with witnesses). The story has dark themes and leaves you with a lot of questions, as a lot of true crime podcasts do. I don't think I would have liked the story much without the audio. None of the characters were very likeable, including the two narrators (Sadie and the podcaster). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Murder, and Pedophilia

abigailfinney's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

jimins's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

bruhhhhh that ending 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Child death, and Addiction

nicetomitchya's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Rape, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, and Blood

maddisaysmeow's review against another edition

dark

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Child abuse, and Violence

nausicaa_teto's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, Grief, Vomit, Death, Child death, and Murder

melimar's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I started this book not knowing if I would like the format, which switches from Sadie’s POV to West’s POV to snippets of a podcast about Sadie and her sister’s lives. I don’t know how it would have differed to read the book in print, but the audio format helped the different POVs come together well. I really enjoyed this book, though there were some things that kept me from giving it a higher score. It is a bit difficult to get through parts of this book, due to the topics. The ending was a tiny bit disappointing, but I understand why the author made the choice to end it that way. I’m glad I chose to listen to the audiobook version of the book. The narration in this book was absolutely amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Ableism, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Grief, Pedophilia, and Violence

nyantastic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Child abuse, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Violence, Pedophilia, Death, and Murder

Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Bullying, and Drug abuse