Reviews tagging 'Blood'

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

45 reviews

lotoblanco's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

tripinmidair's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? N/A

4.75

This book is genuinely scary. I couldn't wrap my head around how a book with this basis could be a horror and I kept thinking this until the first horror scene. From then on, everything is terrifying. Can't wait to read more of his works! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

nicole_cob_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

thewellbitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

3.0

 Entertaining but definitely not for me. Someone into metal would probably get a lot more out of this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Violence, and Alcohol

hellokatya's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.25

this book took me a long time to finish, i just could not get myself to pick it back up once i’d stopped. 
around the 60-70% mark it got a lot better, but its a fight to get there.
i’ve read some grady hendrix before, and i’d definitely say he has much better books to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Emotional abuse

madisbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

4.0

this was my first grady hendrix book and overall i thoroughly enjoyed it! i loved the overall story and found the Troglodyte album being intertwined throughout the story very creative! i typically don't like stories that have a slower pace, which i feel this one has, but this one kept me engaged the entire time!
the overuse of "and" and "said" kinda of threw me off a bit and there were a few points where I was confused on exactly what was going on. 
however, i really enjoyed the story and cannot wait to read another book by mr. hendrix

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

_readerfromtheblacklagoon_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

styx_the_gremlin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0

It's got heavy metal. It's got horror. It's got gore, and it's got a whole lot of fun.
This book has the best 'soundtrack', the horror bits are tense, the characters compelling, the gore sickening, and it still manages to be funny. 
Also I will never trust UPS again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

kmiff's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault and Fire/Fire injury

sighsborg's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Misogyny, Vomit, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail