Reviews tagging 'Blood'

What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman

12 reviews

erinreading's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Middle/end of book was so good. Last chapter and epilogue fell flat and left me more confused.
I don’t even know what content warnings to put because this book is so unnerving in some points 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Miscarriage, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Infertility and Miscarriage

hauntedantiqueshop's review

dark mysterious sad 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

2.0

Can’t even lie, they really had me in the first half of this book. There’s some really good horror imagery in this, I really loved the marine life aspects. I totally get why it’d be classified as a southern gothic folk horror and it does work for a while but it gets overshadowed (for me at least) by alternating unreliable prospectives, the weird focus on motherhood instead of parenthood when there are multiple parents in the story, and then that anticlimactic ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Miscarriage and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

bookcaptivated's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Kidnapping

spacemonkey25's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Animal cruelty

kkalicky94's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

"Take my hand..." 

When Madi moves back to her home town and reluctantly gives up custody of her daughter to give her a better life, she reconnects with Henry, who she never thought she'd see again. The two are drawn to each other for a higher purpose—figuring out what happened to Henry's son five years ago. They're in this together, for better or for worse, and the answer might just be something only a mother could love... 

Okay, so this book was so surprising and unexpected—in a good way! I like to go into books blind, but at a certain point I had to go read the synopsis because I was confused about where the book was heading. I read it, confirmed it with what I was reading, then promptly threw it all out the window because, what the hell just happened?! This book was so much more than I expected, and I loved it all! This was just the right amount of creepy, mystery, and body horror for me to fly through it in giant sections each time I sat down to read it. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot, characters, dialogue, and content. I can't wait to read more from Clay! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

szyca's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

emhold's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Torture, Blood, and Murder

sunflower_badger's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

This book made me sick to read with some of the descriptions. Definitely not what I expected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

jordandotcom's review against another edition

dark

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, and Murder

thegayestghost's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, and Pregnancy