Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

115 reviews

ohknellah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Blood

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

librarymouse's review against another edition

adventurous emotional relaxing slow-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

This is the third time I've read The Night Circus, and I love it just as much as I did when I read it for the first time a decade ago. The language is beautiful and the characters are so easy to love, flaws and all. With every read through, I see new details, understand innuendos I hadn't caught my first time around, and fall in love with the magic of the circus just as deeply. The moment I finished the book, I wanted to open it back up to the first page. I am a rêveur to my core, and as the name suggests, I dream of the circus.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death and Suicide

Minor: Body horror

oceanbluetay's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.5

boring.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

eclipse799's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

This book is really lovely. I was confused at the time switches, so I would've had a hard time reading an ebook or audiobook version. 
The imagery is so vivid that I could for real add each element to a mental picture that I could easily construct. Your images will look different, even given the same description, and I think that's what the circus is all about. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Le Cirque des Rêves arrives without warning and is only open from sunset to sunrise. The circus, and this book, is filled with magic, drama, art, love and mysticism. This is the story of the circus, why it was started and the people that keep it running, it is a truly beautiful book and I would do anything to be one of the dreamers for a night.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

matonnhermann's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

I liked this book, but the time jumps and there being so many characters threw me off a lot. (It was hard to keep track of sometimes).

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death and Dementia

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Self harm, and Suicide

bexi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious relaxing sad slow-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

3.75

I loved the experience of reading this. It was so atmospheric and relaxing. However, I often found it hard to folllow because of the back and forth POVs and timelines. I also did myself the disservice of switching between the audio and digital versions willy nilly, which didn't help the matter. But in my defense I've been struggling to physically read this year (not in a good head space), so the audiobook was very helpful in actually finishing the book. Plus it's narrated by Jim Dale, my favorite audiobook narrator, so how could I resist?

My point is that I'm not entirely sure what I read and I definitely missed some things, but the experience was lovely despite any confusion. 😅 I'd like to reread this, in just one format, when my mind isn't gobbledygook. 🙈

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty and Suicide

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bookwyrmknits's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

I enjoyed reading this in print for a reread (though listening to Jim Dale narrate the book was a truly magical first experience with The Night Circus). I had forgotten a lot of the details, but not everything, so I was amused by which parts felt new to me.

This is not a book for someone who wants a decisive story with a plot that makes sense. This is not for readers looking for a straightforward story. But I knew going into it that this was a wandering tale where words were magic and nothing was what it seemed, and so I enjoyed it very much. Again.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Blood