Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Loop by Ben Oliver, Ben Oliver

7 reviews

dandelionsteph's review against another edition

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness and Fire/Fire injury

Technically, it's

soldiers, not police officers

which

pick off any survivors of the initial apocalyptic event

, but the "marshals" which take the protagonists away are clearly terrible people, giving him mere minutes for a trial, so I'll count it as this element anyway. The "mass shootings" isn't in the context of a lone gunman or a small squad of gunmen, and is more similar to the context of war or domestic insurgency, but it's similar enough to an open-air mass shooting that I'll count it as one. The terminal illness is a

"mystery flu", rather than a real-life terminal illness or one conventionally similar to a terminal illness, but, functionally, it might as well be a terminal illness, because it's very rare and the characters cannot afford its extremely expensive cure.

The "car accident" element is a flying car that was hijacked, and the characters crash-landed it rather than have it go back to their enemies. Still, it's close enough.

butterklotz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Torture, and Murder

antonia_00's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

I don’t know what to say... I just couldn’t stop reading this book. It is very brutal and short: a mix between "Maze Runner" and "Ghost in the shell". Nevertheless I have to say that the end has disappointed me a little and I don’t really believe it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

aiden_pkb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-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? N/A

5.0

This book can only be described as one word: WOW! It was tense, it was fast-paced and put me on edge at times. This book got me out of a reading slump and I could not put it down! I have and will continue to recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood

rachel_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

breezer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Medical trauma

queenmackenzie's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• 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

A really interesting dystopia, definitely one for our current times, and will probably be the successor of books such as The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner. I really enjoyed it, though I found that some moments dragged out or were pointless, but I’m looking forward to reading the next part of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, and Blood