Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

52 reviews

amandall's review against another edition

Graphic, violate death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

tifftastic87's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.5

In Buenos Aires two women are united through odd circumstances. An unnamed vampire arrives on the shores of Buenos Aires and watches as the world around her changes, after the Paraguayan War in 1870 a plague hits and the vampire's connection to the city begins to change. In the modern day, Alma is struggling with her mother's terminal illness, her own medical troubles, and motherhood accidentally awakens the vampire from her long slumber changing Alma's life forever. 

This was very poetically written, eerie, and tense at times. Very low on plot, high on vibes. Both women's lives were tragic in different ways and overall was just a sad book. There was a lot of grief and anger here. I really liked the conversation around religion from the vampire's story, honestly, my favorite part. Both women lost in different ways, their whole family. I really appreciated the view on rage and anger and how emotions are processed within the constructs of the time. However, the ending was so meh. I just wanted a bit more explanation. Based on the setup it didn't feel like a valid ending for Alma and I am disappointment by it. Overall, it was a bit boring and didn't live up to some of the expectations given by the listings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Murder

veridae's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

salemander's review

5.0

SUCH an interesting book wow. i wasn’t expecting such a deep look into the grief of having a sick parent and the ways you watch this person you’ve known so well all your life slowly disappear. alongside this intense look into terminal illness, you also have this incredible and unique look into immortality and the way trauma causes you to slowly lose your humanity. also sexy vampire lady killing people slays

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

ladynocturnal's review

dark reflective 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? No

2.75

A lackluster vampire novel that somehow makes the human character more interesting than the vampire. The characters were just not good enough to hold my attention and the story was disappointing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

spookymartinireads's review

dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

Deeply sad, reflective, and tense. I did have a preference between the two POVs but the ending really sold it for me. Live laugh yearn 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

junejunejulyjuly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

softanimal's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

Best book I've read so far this year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

raisinreads's review against another edition

reflective

3.5

I had really high expectations for this based on the blurb and that it had basically all of my favorite tropes (vampires, sapphics, loneliness, yearning) but uh that's on me, my bad. it was okay. i do love vampires and people being gay though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

30something_reads's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

 Death had come to inhabit my body. It was a possession, not a visit. 

I'm still trying to figure out my full feelings about the ending but overall, this was gorgeous. The narrative structure was really compelling- I could not stop reading!
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A sweeping journey from the Old World to modern day Buenos Aires, this story is told in two parts from two very different women. 

The first half of the narrative is told through the eyes of a centuries old vampire as we follow her journey from her violent conception and across the world to Buenos Aires for a new beginning. 

The second half is told through the eyes of a modern day woman in Buenos Aires as she navigates her career, motherhood, and the inevitable loss of her own mother to a terminal illness. 

Two seemingly unconnected stories slowly begin to intertwine in a haunting, obsessive tale about grief, female agency, and desire.
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All of the dark, gothic, sapphic vampire vibes that I was hoping to get out of AEoM- I got them here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Confinement, Sexual content, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic