queenkeevs 's review for:

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

5.0

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This story really took me through all of the emotions from anger, rage, frustration, hatred, sadness, and disgust. Do not go into this book thinking that you were just gonna read a retelling of a classic story. This is NOT that.

This is one of those stories that creeps up on you slowly, quiet at first, but you know something’s brewing. The tension that lives in small towns with long memories and buried secrets pulses through every page of this book. And at the eye of that storm is Maddy Washington.

Maddy is a haunting character carrying a sense of dread that builds with every chapter. Everything that has already been done to her, leading to what is coming. When you think things start to look like maybe they’ll turn out okay… RUN!!

This book offers slow burn horror and the suffocating realization that some monsters can’t be hidden. 

However, Maddy isn’t the monster they think she is, but that doesn’t mean she won’t become something to fear. Maddie is very much a product of her surroundings environment, and nature versus nurture. Dealing with racism, bullying, vengeance power, rage, and control. She takes matters into her own hands and rights every wrong she’s ever experienced. The cost is great and the lives of others will be forever changed. 

This has heavy themes of control, racism, bullying, identity and vengeance.