Reviews tagging 'Torture'

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

105 reviews

taobooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

jennipea382's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

booksoversecondbreakfast's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Torture, and Abandonment

ciara_donohue's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

mari_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

So many mixed feelings…I feel like the author went overboard with world building and there are so many confusing moving pieces and lore evolving. There were parts I was so lost - and never got an answer to what something was. Even though it makes no sense, this book is hard to put down. I enjoyed the spicy and conflicting scenes. However, Poppy’s internal monologue was kind of grating at times especially towards the end of the book when things pick up heavily. And our male main character has a lot of shockingly creepy lines…lacking polished editing but still an addictive read.  This almost feels twilight x GOT with random other new stuff thrown in. I am interested in what comes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and War

bree_h_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

0.25

What was that ending?

This book started out pretty shaky BUT I was won over by the amazing work of the narrator. She had a way of narrating things so that the banter and characters flowed in a way that the prose didn’t. I will also credit the book with the fact that Poppy felt like an 18-year-old girl scrabbling for control in her own life. The themes and exploration of them was interesting. Poppy’s character lent to these themes and it was fairly well done. Aside from that, the foreshadowing as fairly well done.

What really tanked this book for me was the last quarter of the book roughly. While it was declining slightly before the twist was revealed, that’s what destroyed the book for me. Everything about the characters and who they were felt like it vanished. Their actions stopped making sense and while I thought some changes after the reveal of the twist were well some, most didn’t. I stopped understanding Poppy and her actions. I found myself so frustrated with her and what she was doing that it tanked the book for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

cdoubet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

ephemeral_remi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

"we go home to marry»

🥹🥹🥹🥹 I’m sorry? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Sexual content

louiepotterbook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

toknowthyshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

3.0

 Very mixed feelings - book itself is derivative but enjoyable, then 80% of the way through has some antisemitic tropes that I don't think the author realized she was replicating. But it turned me off- not sure now if I will read the next books in the series. :/ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, and Murder

I suspect it is unintentional, but the book very directly recreates antisemitic tropes related to blood libel. This comes up about 80% of the way through the book and, as a Jewish reader, made me incredibly uncomfortable and sad.