Reviews tagging 'Blood'

14 Ways to Die by Vincent Ralph

16 reviews

annamwallace66's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

lucymae0515's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Overall, this book was ok! It wasn’t anything I would particularly remember or recommend, but I did enjoy it while reading. The chapters are super short which made it so easy to get through! The plot was good, but the end was super predictable. If you want an easy thriller, this is for you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

cernst09's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

mysterymom40's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse and Mass/school shootings

library_of_al's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

I didn’t really like the start but once I got close to end I was really into it. So many plot twist. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Mental illness

floaton0's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

GGGTM vibes. A teen girl's mother was murdered by a serial killer, so she joined a reality livestream show to uncover who the killer is. Had some good twists about potential suspects. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Blood

Moderate: Murder

Towards the end

two characters are forced to slit each others wrists to trick police into attributing the murders to a lovers' suicide pact. They are interrupted before causing fatal damage

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loverofvenus's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

 jess, the main character, wasn't the *most* likeable. i could very easily make the same mistakes as her but that doesn't make it less irritating. also, it doesn't come up much in the book—& we all know that unless stated otherwise the character is white & cishet—but there are moments that it is painfully obvious the author is both of those things. i will say, all in all, it was an enjoyable book.

albeit, there was a scene when her competitors gave up their opportunities to tell their viewers to follow her & it *did* felt like a cop out. also, her director/friend, danny, was implied to be crushing on her but like?? she was seventeen & he was in his twenties?? ew??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

honeybunchesofoats06's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

2.0

I was going to give 14 Ways to Die a 4/5 star rating in the beginning but as the book went on I got more and more disappointed. To start, the “chapters” are very short, which makes it a quick read but with most chapters being a page, page and a half long there wasn’t a lot of description. This made the characters feel very one dimensional. I thought the plot could have been very good but it was just poorly executed. I also didn’t like Jess’s character about how she thought she was the only one that could experience grief, there was only one type of grief and that fact that her character was kind of all over the place. I do agree this book is very hooking and pulls you in but I think it could have been done way better.

I thought the twist in the end was a bit random too. Although you were meant to be miss led the whole time and were meant to keep guessing who the Magpie man was we didn’t get much on Mr. Farrell and Bernie’s life until the very end so to me Mr. Farrell was just a random character which made the twist less shocking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

snazz07's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit, and Alcohol

mycozymnbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I liked this book enough but nothing about it really stood out to me to give it a wow factor. 

I found this reads more as a grief journal with a little bit of trying to catch a killer and not the other way around

I also found what I think was supposed to be a love interest to not be romantic at all and actually creepy. 

I will say I loved the short chapters and the author did a great job using misdirection in order to keep me guessing right until the end. 

Overall I am happy I read this but don't see it being a reread for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment