Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Bloed by Holly Black

13 reviews

eloisenicolina's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Addiction, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexual assault

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

leahfoko's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I was not a fan of all the drug use in this. I don’t think it was done badly necessarily, I think it portrayed it as dangerous and that is good, but it kinda just made me uncomfortable. Likely because I really, really hate needles.

Spoiler

Also, Dave glamouring himself to look like Luis so he could sleep with Lolli was really rapey to me and made me super uncomfortable. Dave’s character in general made me very uncomfortable. 

So I found both those aspects of this book to make me like it a lot less because it was hard to read. I liked the mystery though, and all the faerie intrigue is always fun to me, I do love Holly Black’s faerie world. I liked Ravus and Val together. I liked seeing Roiben and Kaye at the end. But the drugs and the glamour sex thing was just pretty hard for me to read. So it would be good to know about those parts going into it I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Rape, and Sexual assault

Spoiler

I am calling the glamoured sex with Dave and Lolli rape/sexual assault because I personally believe that it is. She was agreeing to have sex with Luis, not Dave, and she didn’t know that it wasn’t Luis. Therefore that counts as rape to me. Maybe some people would argue it isn’t, but I argue that it is.

ad3l's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Animal death, and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment

issyfrp99's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Animal death

bry_oh_knee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Another excellent dark faerie romp by Holly Black. Thoroughly enjoyed twisting tropes on their head. Came out in 2006(?) So it's funny hearing her describe the fashion's and them being popular now as well 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Sexual content and Sexual assault

Animal death comes on fast but is over quickly...but it is a surprise happens about 1/3 of the way through the book. Drug abuse is rampant throughout but crucial to the story (the drugs are fictional but the use is based on reality), sexual abuse is not violent

Spoiler

lack of consent via character being disguises as someone else.

jackie_u's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

It was a little slow at the beginning but then it goes fast. I really enjoyed reading this book. Definitely would recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Animal death

amgsteele's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Animal death

raelinrou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

stateofiction's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.0

1 star for animal murder!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death