Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

33 reviews

bittie_bee's review against another edition

mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Rape

moonylovesstars's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I thought it was alright, it was very slow and I feel as though I couldn’t understand how the characters fell for each other. It definitely c/m gave me 1870s version of twilight. I didn’t feel their connection at all. At least until the last few chapters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

enzopudge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Kidnapping, and Stalking

alizasminilibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

As a lover of The Originals, Twilight and Historical Fiction, The Beautiful checked all of my boxes. While this was the first novel in the series it sucked me in and sets up well for the continuation for the next book.

While there are still so many unanswered questions, which are all annotated in my book, I thoroughly enjoyed being able to put the pieces together as more and more was revealed. Even the main character, Celine, has secrets that are not spelled out until later on into the series.

The characters that we meet such as Bastien and Odette are intriguing. While we only see a few of them on a regular basis, it is hard to not notice the love and loyalty they share.

I immediately started the next book in the series and I cannot wait to share my thought on that one too!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Gore, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

takarakei's review against another edition

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

3.0

The beginning of this was very interesting, but it kinda lost me in the middle. I've heard book 2 is much better so I might continue on audio.

did w/ audio narration which was  good

🌶️3/5 from what I remember it was open door but not overly descriptive 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Racism

ashlislibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Blood, and Murder

phoxyphoenix's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

mouthy_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, and Blood

booking_along's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

this was as beautifully written and everything else this author does.

so if you want straight to the point and no diacritics writing or plot that just gets to where it is going without some detours? 
not the book for you. 

but i enjoyed this a lot.

i really loved the characters and their stories. 
i enjoyed the female characters in this book and how they used that to their advantage because every male and some other people as well just dismissed them because of their gender. 

i enjoyed the supernatural or fantastical elements as well. it was nicely woven into the story in a way that was well done, it fit well into the historical aspects of the story and just added a little something extra to it. 


i just enjoyed this a lot and will counting on soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

readsbymoonlight's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Blood

Minor: Death and Murder