Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

649 reviews

heir_of_regulus's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

It's a really cool idea, but I feel like it wasn't executed well. Pretty much the entire time I was reading it I was waiting for the plot to get going. The romance felt forced instead of natural. Honestly a lot of this book felt forced. Maybe it's just me, and I read it when I was in the wrong mood/headspace. But I had a really difficult time feeling anything for these characters and also a hard time trying to get sucked into the world. Which is pretty abnormal for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Blood

Minor: Genocide and Slavery

joensign's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer and Cannibalism

warlocksarecool21's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I had a blast with this book and the ending emotionally wrecked me 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

kelisabeth's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

professorguanaco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Cancer

ehoustonmyatt's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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

3.0

I found the first half of this book so tedious that if it had not been a book club book I would have DNF’ed it. 

I agree with other reviewers that it picked up in the second half but I didn’t love the way it ended. Hopefully things take a turn for the better in the second two books of this series but I feel like a break is necessary before attempting them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

karthnemesis's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gladiusglave75's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

For some reason, I had a tough time getting into this book at first, but 250+ pages in I really got invested!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, and Murder

tracy713's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

cryptofauna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

im honestly unclear on how i feel about this one?? its like a 3.75-4 but im not sure which one. it was def not what i was expecting but generally i had a good time? WAYY more dense than i was expecting for what i had heard about this book, and i had a really hard time keeping all the characters straight, especially because they would alternate between last names and first names when referring to them and would also switch out the order of if their last name comes first or whatever.
super interesting plot and story and it was certainly really innovative but it almost had too much happening. if i read this in print i could have been referring to the glossary and the overview at the beginning but on kindle its kind of difficult and takes up way more time so i was in the dark for  like. most of it 
i didn't love the ending  but i see how it was being set up throughout for the most part (mystery and baddie reveal wise), but generally i am annoyed that 

she died??? it kind of ruins the whole enemies to lovers thing i really thought they were teasing (THERES NO LOVERS), and them just not being able to find her body afterwards is so stupid to me.

they're literally all necromancers but in order for ur big dramatic moment to work you just have to conveniently make her disappear?? frustrating
the characters were interesting when i could actually tell who was who, it has a cool magic system and is written in a way that can be a little work to get through but it was also funny and having it from gideon's perspective adds some much needed levity to a lot of these scenarios. i was invested in them as characters and as a couple and i felt like the relationship between harrow and gideon was pretty well set up. i don't love enemies to lovers because it doesn't always make sense to me ("u hated each other why r u doing this") but their interactions felt pretty realistic and not like things were just happening to happen.
it wasn't what i was hoping for or expecting but it was good i think

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Murder