Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Die Chroniken von Rotkäppchen - Allein im tiefen, tiefen Wald by Christina Henry

27 reviews

ms_read's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I was ready to give the book 5 ⭐️ until the end. It felt sudden. I would have been fine with even one more chapter to show what happened after the big reveal instead of a quick recap of 25 days chapter. 
The final paragraph made sense as the ending, I just wanted more information beforehand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, and Car accident

rivercat0338's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

cloreadsbooks1364's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

This is a dystopian horror novel, set in a world where a pandemic has hit and decimated the population, the military are sending any survivors to contamination camps, and a woman is alone in the woods...

Red is trying to get to her grandmother's house, armed with only an axe in a place full of dangers. As a protagonist, I found her so lovable! She was wary, but kind. Cautious and prepared, so I never felt the urge to scream at her, unlike most protagonists. She had a prosthetic leg, but didn't let it hold her back from anything, including the months-long trek to grandmother, who might not even be alive by the time she arrives.

I read this book very quickly, the story scooped me in with its fast pacing, the jumps from past to present every few chapters, the changes in setting every so often. The pandemic storyline was very interesting, I would honestly read a whole book about where the virus came from, how the American government reacted, how people rebuilt society afterwards (if it stops at all). And if course I'd love to know what that thing was (readers will know what I mean by 'thing', I don't want to spoil). 
I highly recommend this one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

bella613's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This book felt very unfinished and not just because of the ending. 

Everything from the descriptions of the violence and the behavior and thoughts of the main character were very in-your-face, and didn't feel imaginative or realistically written. I loved the main character so I wish she had been allowed to just be, and not constantly overexplained by the author. 

It read like someone decided to write a dystopia-style version of little red riding hood and stopped there, didn't put any more thought into it. I have no problem with open endings in general, or even with unanswered questions about large plot points. But this book doesn't feel like a story that's meant to make you think in the way that open endings usually do. It almost felt more like an unnecessarily long intro into the real story, than a story itself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

barbie_fett's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, and Blood

goodin10tions's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

4.0

This re-telling of Red Riding hood is a rollercoaster of a tale! Red is not the little defenseless child of the original story. She is a super bad ass. I really enjoyed the adventure - will she make it to Grandmas? You'll have to read to find out.
 
Christina Henry with January LaVoy (Narrator)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Stalking, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Excrement, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aparker89's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

Ms Henry does it again! Red Riding Hood is just trying to get to grandma's house but many obstacles stand in her way: a pandemic, the loss of society, no easy method of transportation and so much more... Will she ever make it? Or will one of the wolves get her? This is one adventure you won't want to miss!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

naisdayz's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Would have been a solid 5 star without the abrupt/rushed ending.

Too many questions about the disease and the crisis were left unanswered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Racism

neon_red's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

It was not my first Christina Henry and it will not be my last. In a positive sense it what I expected, a dark/horror story inspired by a fairytale classic. I in particular liked the ending and like with Lost Boy and Alice after starting I didnt stop until I had finished. If you liked the other works of Henry, than you will like this one as well. The book that Henry created once again invited me to escape in to a dark semi fantastical world and I gladly followed the white rabbit...ops wrong book.

I really enjoyed that it was a survival story that focused and stayed with the main theme of survival. Sure the dystopian goverment conspiracies we're mentioned, but Red was not the choosen one who could save the world. I liked the "small" scale. What I didnt really like and why I can Not award 5 stars, were the grenade and the second encounter with Sirois. Okay, the grenade was later on explained and so I accepted it, somewhat. But the Chance that Sirois of all people would find them after fighting the monster is to forced, it does not help that the characters themselves poke fun at it. But I liked the ending evenmore, I had thousand ideas how the story some happy and some not. Also the Idea that Red is the Hunter was quite nice. Even though it was one that was already present in Dropouts.tv Ever After, which I can recommend to anyone who enjoy these dark fairytales.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Rape, Torture, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual violence

aely's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Pedophilia, Sexism, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Medical content, Abandonment, and War