Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani

5 reviews

tetrootz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexism, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Cannibalism, Medical content, Mental illness, Death of parent, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Murder, Child abuse, Classism, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Stalking, Racism, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Blood, Fatphobia, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahaf712's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement, Violence, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Infertility, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

rainerasnic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Murder, Abandonment, and Blood

pey333's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Death of parent

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

A beautiful collection of fairy tale retellings (and Peter Pan). All are good, but a few, like the Peter Pan one, blew me away and made me cry, it's so beautiful and sad. I rank some of these stories with those found in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber."

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Blood

Minor: Death of parent and Child death