Reviews tagging 'Blood'

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

46 reviews

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

indeedithappens's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Grief, Self harm, Alcohol, Colonisation, Gore, Infidelity, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Abandonment, Body horror, Blood, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

o_romeo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Graphic: Death, Blood, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Stalking, Self harm, Infidelity, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content and Drug abuse

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, and Stalking

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Death, and Blood

fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

This is the 3rd book I read from this series, and just like the others it focuses on stories and how a story changes depending on who tells it. It's really cool how all three books explore this theme in their own way and use different strategies / settings, it makes the books all feel fresh. And I just really love the "story within a story" elementin this series.
It's also really fun to explore a bit more about the world and the backstory of the monk with each book. With the monk travelling to different regions in each book, it feels a bit like a fun travel memoir.
Apart from the monk, the other characters were also really fun. I enjoyed the dynamics between the tiger sisters and how they argued among themselves

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.5

4.5 stars rounded up to 5. I really liked it, though not as much as The Empress of Salt and Fortune. Probably because it's so short, and I really wanted more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

librarymouse's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious slow-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

God, this books is so good! The world building is vibrant without being overly didactic. The author let's readers learn as the narrator does, which makes the cleric the perfect conduit for the storytelling. The love in the story within a story was nuanced and beautiful. I want to read everything Nghi Vo has written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Blood

maeverose's review against another edition

3.0

I can appreciate it but it didn’t hold up to the first book for me. I’m not really a fan of fable-esque stories, and this one is very much that. I like that it brings up the topic of who’s writing history and if they’re really depicting it as it happened, I would’ve liked if it leaned a bit more into that. It was very meh for me overall.

I’m also a bit curious about the ‘romance’ in the book, because to me it felt very typical of fable-esque love stories that are actually pretty toxic from a modern pov, so I wasn’t thinking of it as a romance we were supposed to root for exactly but it seems like some other reviewers felt differently.. because the romance was very toxic both from the human’s and tiger’s povs (stalking, not helping unless they get something out of it, being generally aggressive, etc.).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Gore, and Stalking

There’s a lot of descriptions of animal gore and eating raw animal parts Also very minor but there was at least one time that I noticed the author used the wrong pronouns for Chih 🙃

megj23's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood