Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

The Blood Trials by N.E. Davenport

71 reviews

cyannaslibrary's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

Loved this book and currently reading the second one. Just didn’t care for Reed and Ikenna’s “enemies with benefits” type of relationship, it didn’t interest me and felt unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Murder

myamaya's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Overall, I liked the plot and aligned with Ikenna's motives. Though she was a bit too quick-tempered and made choices that annoyed me. 

I liked the world and the worldbuilding. It was really interesting reading it. I hope to read the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

shector1's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content

konyino's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual content

shauna_n's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

Wow! Between this and Queen of Nothing I’ve been reading some of the most vicious, blood thirsty, and VIOLENT books I’ve ever read. It makes for a really intense experience. The backstabbing, betrayal, who can be trusted, political agenda absolute beast this book is took me by storm. I couldn’t put it down! I was gripped and at the end I was staring into space experiencing this book. Incredible storytelling, incredible challenges, incredible strength and resilience in times of adversary. Wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

shaipanda'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? It's complicated

4.5

Ok this book is bat shit insaneeee - I absolutely loved it but definitely did not expect exactly how dark it is so keep that I mind if you read this. However despite that, I really loved Kenna and this was a superrr engaging book. Despite it being  darker than I tend to prefer I’ll almost definitely read the sequel when it comes out cause omg so well doneee :) 
However I will say I personally didn’t give it a 5 star because of how unlikeable pretty much every character is at various parts of the story (including Kenna occasionally lol) and I tend to prefer to at least somewhat like the characters I’m reading about 
Oh also reallyyyy look at the trigger warnings fr cause this book is insanely dark and has no issues killing off characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Cannibalism, and War

Minor: Toxic friendship

brim010's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexism, and Violence

lycanhood's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Genocide

tahsintries's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and War