Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Wicked King, by Holly Black

120 reviews

becca_w_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Sexual content, Bullying, Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Death, Child abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Body horror, Grief, Medical content, and Vomit

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, War, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Toxic friendship

bien's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.5

After finishing the first book in this series, I immediately went to grab this second book, I needed to know what was going to happen next! I must say that this book (in comparison to the first one) has a little bit more slow paced fragments in there which caused me not to read as fast through it as the first one. Nevertheless, I loved this one and omg that ending!?!?

Spoiler

Also excuse me, Taryn betrayed Jude AGAIN. At this point I'm not even surprised. ALSO, Jude gets banished from the Faerie world, say what?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Torture

daijareads's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Torture, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

angelica01's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Really good charecters that are built on. Love the plot and overall really enjoyed. Interesting parts to the story. Ending was shocking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and War

Moderate: Blood and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

lilym_p's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Violence, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy

chloelj27's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Torture

Minor: Vomit

konstantina's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

3.75

Reading language: Greek 

You must be strong enough to hit many times without tiring. The first lesson is to become so strong. 

A good continuation of the first book, although not as exciting as that one. The plot felt to be moving slower than the in the first one, and there wasn't much to see, apart from Jude's fascinating and complicated relationship with Cardan and her family. Very good plot twists and certainly awaiting to read the finale.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Kidnapping, Violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Torture, Death of parent, and Vomit

sempiterne's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Death, Murder, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, and Emotional abuse

charbookchar's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping

bookshelvesandbookcorners07's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.75

amazing enemies to lovers but it only takes up about 10% of the book 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcohol and Sexual content

not anything too bad, but it does have a small amount of sexual content but it is closed doors