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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

16 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Racism, Car accident, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual content, and Vomit

caseymac's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Classism, Blood, Racism, Death, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Gore, Vomit, Gaslighting, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

Moderate: Racial slurs, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

vicklepickle's review

dark emotional 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

5.0

A modernization of Carrie. Going in knowing the story of Carrie made it so heart breaking. Even in the midst of all the horror you cannot help but feel for Maddy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Police brutality, Racism, Blood, Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Vomit

petit_lecteur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Body horror, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Police brutality, Violence, Vomit, and Blood

readabookmofo's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

 THE GOOD: Great racial commentary, not only between different races, but internalized racism as well. I empathized IMMENSELY with the FMC trying desperately to appear white; reading this honestly brought up a lot of painful memories I’ve forgotten about from elementary and high school. It was cathartic to read about an experience that I identified with greatly.
I also loved the intensified romantic interest compared to the romantic subplot in Carrie by Stephen King.
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THE BAD:
This book was too similar to Carrie for me. It was difficult to not compare the two novels because they’re so alike. Once I realized this was pretty much a modern retelling, I lost interest. I knew how the story was going to end. Jackson used so many words and phrases ad nauseam; it took me out of the reading every single time and made all the characters feel lifeless. The romantic subplot started off fantastic, but quickly sunk. The storytelling was lacking at points by relying upon various mediums to build anticipation. Yet all it did was cause frustration; in many of these instances, all I wanted was the POV of the FMC, which would have been perfect. The ending was also very underwhelming.
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Overall this was just an okay book for me. I’m interested to read more from Tiffany D. Jackson and get a better idea of her own voice. Again, it was hard to not compare this to Carrie because it followed it too closely. It wouldn’t be my first book recommendation honestly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Sexism, and Bullying

Moderate: Vomit and Blood

Favorite Quote: "How can one man who knows nothing of the weight of blood tame you?"

natnat_7'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racial slurs, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Suicide, Car accident, Ableism, Child abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, and Vomit

mamawantsbooks's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Body horror, Bullying, Gun violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death and Vomit

beffynicole's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Holy shit. This book was absolutely incredible and kept me hanging on every word. This was also fantastic as an audiobook because some of the chapters are in podcast format & several narrators were brought in. I will say while I was expecting it to get gory, it went from 0 to 100 real fast. Earlier scenes were not descriptive so I wasn't super prepared. 

Still, an awesome read. Just please check trigger warnings!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Death, Racism, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Vomit and Slavery

aformeracceleratedreader's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

I freakin loved this! Loved the discourse of being multi-racial. I'm mixed myself and always love seeing/reading stories about mixed identities and the struggles that come with it as most people romanticize/fetishize mixed race identities. Loved the discourse on race relations in modern day as well because people like to believe that there isn't the same racism today as in the past, but many small towns still do have overt racism, not just covert racism, and act like it's nothing. 
My heart goes out to Maddy in so many ways. I can't begin to imagine the hurt and difficulties her character had to face.
I wish some characters were spared from death

Spoiler

like Mrs Morgan who seemed like the only teacher who gave a shit about the racism happening

. And I wish

Spoiler

Jules had died. That girl was vile through and through and lied even after losing her arm, her college acceptance, her best friend. F that bitch. Didn't acknowledge any of her wrongdoings to Maddy or any of the other black kids. She is irredeemable

. I liked that the podcast host was put on the spot by his guest host about how he framed his show and how he ignored how insidious racism is and how it could've driven Maddy to do what she did. The ending is quite open, and I'm going to believe Maddy was able to find who she needed to find and could finally live a life she wanted.
There are heavy topics in here so read content/trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Hate crime, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Car accident, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Dysphoria, and Grief

micalyia's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Gore, Vomit, Violence, and Child abuse