Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

68 reviews

viktoriya_sk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional lighthearted

3.75

Cozy YA book with a great plit and good characters except for the main character Briana. I found her to be extremely annoying, whiny, and dramatic. All the other characters acted fine in situations under high pressure, and then you get sentences like "the room is tilting in front of my eyes" in response to being asked to stay home. There were some good and serious themes, and the mc wasn't always that horrible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood, Vomit, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

imds's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

lermaline's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Torture, Car accident, and Colonisation

Minor: Kidnapping and Fire/Fire injury

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

I was pretty meh about Legendborn but HOOOOOOO BOY this was so good I’m foaming at the mouth for book 3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Confinement, Rape, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

cattheteawitchfairy's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Incredible sequel to Legendborn. In a way, I think I preferred this one? The only thing I wasn’t sure about was the ending as it didn’t go the way I was expecting. Very interested in seeing what happens next; Deonn’s writing id captivating!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

allichuckran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

hailstorm3812's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful fast-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? Yes

5.0

AHHHHHHHH. There are drugs in these books, one of those books where you look down and have read 100 pages and didn't notice. I think this book did a good job building on the themes and relationships of the first one while expanding into new territory. I really liked the dynamics of the quartet we have for most of the book. Also can I say how much I love Alice. I'm so glad she's in this book more.

Also are we going poly ending?? I may be delusional but I think we could...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Religious bigotry, and Car accident

awkwardimagination's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

🫠🫠 I thought Legendborn burnt me out,,, at least I had the second book waiting for me. Now I have to wait for the third for some indeterminate amount of time.

The amount of pain and trauma every single character has gone through in this book is absurd. Just bc the first one had more deaths doesn't make this one any better. 

Because this is the second book all the characters are coming into their own more and becoming more loveable.

I'm still not onboard the Sel and Bree train, I wish they would be platonic like Will and Bree, but they are well written I'll give them that.

I'm looking forward to the next book, I need to know how this turns out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Colonisation

siennakt30's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail