Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

7 reviews

blacksphinx's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Violence, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Gore

aleshamiller's review

adventurous dark tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Bullying, Gun violence, Blood, Murder, Kidnapping, War, Confinement, and Death

asclepius's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Suicide attempt

mir_frog73's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, and War

obralitelara's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Animal death, and Emotional abuse

hatterell's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.5

The Abyss Surrounds Us introduces a really unique concept and portrayal of the future, particularly how society and politics interact with an ocean setting. Overall I liked Strutskie's ideas - both training the Reckoners and having trainee pirates compete to be the next captain was a lot of fun.

However, this book lacked in a lot of areas. The writing was decent but I didn't connect with any of the characters or relationships, and Cas's logic was consistently disjointed and confusing. A main issue for me was that I struggled to visualise what the Reckoners looked like, so I felt like there was a huge hole in scenes as I was reading. Even though there's lots of death in this book, it never made the story feel high stakes.

I'm glad I read this but, other than the concept, the best word I can think of to describe it is average. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Grief

Minor: Slavery

f18's review

adventurous inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Torture