Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson

33 reviews

notpresent22's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

I loved this book. A really fun read that brought me out of a reading slump. The characters are fun and lovable even though they’re a little bit messed up. They are also sexy (which is great in this kind of book). The plot is good and engaging throughout, though I will say some of the world building and magic was a little bit shallow in places - however I don’t think it needed to be overly complex for this kind of book. 

The sex scenes were sexy and fun and definitely evoked the correct kind of response in me. I will say however they were extremely idealistic and there were some moments I wished were described in more details (it felt in a couple places like the author had finished and wanted to move on). But I thoroughly enjoyed them overall. 

My biggest qualm with this book is not getting to see the feast at the end, it took away some of the catharsis (also wouldn’t have minded seeing the fuckfest that would have followed). 

Did I enjoy this book? Hell Yes I did. 
Will I be reading the sequel? I am aware that the sequels to this book don’t follow Jak and Marius however I enjoyed the writing and world enough that yes I do think I will be picking up the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Kidnapping, Body horror, and Cursing

Minor: Abandonment

madscientistcat's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Murder, Cursing, Grief, Blood, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Child death

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-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? Yes

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

corruptednatz's review against another edition

tense 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? It's complicated

2.5

It’s an okay book. It felt short because there was only one setting, the castle. The main focus was the relationship developing between Jak and Marius. Sadly the characters were bland, and uninteresting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Death

Moderate: Blood and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Spoiler

The spicy scenes were kind of good. I was shocked how he describes Marius’ body. Whew

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.5

For Jak’s whole life his has been trained to kill the beast that has consumed all of his coven’s power except his. Now it is time to meet the vampire Marius, except his story becomes much different than the one Jack was told. 

MLM romance, Blood Kink, 2 1/2 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Blood, Violence, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

prophecyerised's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

The only thing I'm gonna say about it is this: go to page 207 (if you have paperback) and read Marius with Count Cholula's voice. It will live rent free in your brain forever. Ah. Ah. Ah.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood

sonovahades's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Finally read my first Ben Alderson book! And after all the hype i have heard, i gotta say I LOVE IT! i love the way it's written (although it took me a while to get used to the first person pov), i love the characters and i love the angst and the happiness and the smut as wellll yay

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting

secretlybatman4's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Blood, Death, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Homophobia

ekmoore11's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual content

dododenise's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I can’t say this was a good book. The plot was painfully predictable and if you asked me to define Jack’s personality to you, I wouldn’t know how because it felt so inconsistent. 
However, this book cared about the chemistry between Marius and Jack. And boy, chemistry they had. Pretty much right from the beginning I knew they had the fire for an amazing enemies-to-lovers relationship. 
I enjoyed myself thoroughly reading this and exploring the possibilities of a gay beauty and the beast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt