Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

10 reviews

library_bee's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicide

jessi_lou95's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer

apthompson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

ariam's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, and Colonisation

somturtle's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

confuusedcreaturex4's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I still feel like I don't what to feel about this fever dream of  a book 
I liked the writing,he's certainly a good writer,I loved the descriptions and the places and so many things about the writing but I just couldn't look over the sexism and misogyny there even tho I know that it's understandable considering the time and place but I still didn't like how many times it wasn't addressed as an issue and sometimes even the characters that re aware of the wrongness of some things sometimes it feels like they act as if they don't think its that much of  abig deal, the explicit sexual scenes were just toooo much,the way Mustafa and some of the elderlies talks about women was just so disgusting and racist at so many times,I read  a lot of reviews to see what other people thought about this cause  know it has to signify something bigger about colonization and all but I stillfeel like that wasn't the best way to talk about it ,in just 200 pages there was  a lot of stuff and I was often left confused and perplexed,I'm sure with time ill probably change my mind about so many things and think about some others but for now that's all of it and unf again still cant really wrap my head around it for some reason 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

adverb17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Drug use, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

oliversghost's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

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

3.75

so much and also nothing happened in this book. really good but i kept falling asleep reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Murder

bodiesinbooks's review

dark informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcohol

marie_is_reading's review

reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Blood

Moderate: Death and Infidelity

Minor: Murder