Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

5 reviews

walrus420's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Police brutality

elsebeok's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Minor: Self harm, Sexual content, and Deportation

shannonbauchat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

jillaay_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

5.0

I adored this book, it's very dark in that the horror isn't so much the monster but the treatment of the mentally ill at psych wards, but it's also very funny and the characters and their interactions are great. It just has a lot of heart and you can see what a labor of love it is. Also one thing I loved is how you don't get the diagnoses of any of the characters, the summary on here gives one for a character but I genuinely don't remember it being mentioned, the book focuses on how these are people, not diagnoses or case studies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Police brutality

Moderate: Gore and Mental illness