Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

164 reviews

zghutcheson01's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

I really enjoyed the descriptions of injury which were enough to impress the danger and make me uneasy but didn't seem gratuitous. If you're a biologist, this book also has a semi-accurate (though it feels real) portrayal of how competitive the academic biology environment is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Ableism, and Chronic illness

Minor: Biphobia, Drug use, Sexual content, and Animal cruelty

massivepizzacrust's review against another edition

dark tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

miastr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Ableism and Medical content

Minor: Biphobia

ember_is_gay's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Gun violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug use and Ableism

strawberryswirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Violence, Body horror, and Chronic illness

thothsdumbson's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a little slow, but I didn't mind it as I enjoyed the cast of characters enough for it to not really be an issue for me. Definitely a Sci-Fi horror worth reading if you're alright with a bit of gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Misogyny and Ableism

emmjay's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

A bit rambling in parts with the constant switching of perspective, including mid scene, but mostly cause I want the action to KEEP GOING. The book was terrifying and fascinating and I want more and the science was interesting and my god do not go in the ocean. The ending was a bit abrupt with a few loose ends: I actually want MORE science, to learn more biology, but overall what a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Blood

Moderate: Ableism

markedwithanm's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Gaslighting

robin_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

A siren horror book that was well-paced in my opinion and a nice change of genres. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Drug use and Alcoholism

Minor: Biphobia

theliteraryhooker's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.5

For some reason this took me aaaages to get through, despite it being a pretty engaging story. As always, I really enjoyed Grant's writing and her ability to give each character a unique voice. Some of the deaths in this book are wonderfully gory and awful which I loved, but at the same time, I never really believed the stakes were very high for our main cast of characters. The ending also felt a bit rushed and too neatly wrapped up. Still a creepy read though I want more about the toxins and the pseudocrabs now 👀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Confinement