Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Book of Night (B&N Exclusive Edition) by Holly Black

117 reviews

eleanorrae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Sexual content

casuallygle's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child abuse, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Incest and Blood

foldingthepage_kayleigh'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Confinement, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

jesshart8's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child abuse, and Addiction

lochnessmonster's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Death

cpachet's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug abuse

pvbobrien's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Body horror, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Torture

mayonaisevogel's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, and Blood

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Overall, a little better than I expected (my expectations were really low).

Barely anything happens until the 45% mark. Several critical emotional beats are sabotaged by being “revealed” after the fact instead of experienced by the MC. And the overall emotional shallowness makes the MC come across as a sociopath, though I don’t believe that was the intention.

And the worldbuilding/lore is nothing but squandered potential. Is it open world or isn’t it? How recently? Nothing was explained, which watered down any supposed “cool” or “unique” behavior of certain shadows.

Also, the audio narration was somewhat… bland? No distinguishing between most voices aside from the Hierophant and Salt.

So… pretty much what I expected. Not sure this cliffhanger ending will be enough to entice me to read more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Gun violence and Sexual content

Also blackmail, adult manipulation of a child

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Blood, Child abuse, Vomit, Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Child death

Minor: Addiction