Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Blood & Honey, by Shelby Mahurin

16 reviews

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

2.0

I honestly need to find a way to stop reading a series if I lose interest in this. I didn’t find the first book all that interesting and was sort of waiting for it to end and instead of going, I don’t think I'm going to like this series, I went and read the second one and oh my god, it was so slow.  

This book picks up where it left off in the first book, Lou, Reid, Coco and Ansel are on the run from covens, kingdom and the church after narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Dames Blanches. To elude the scores of witches and throngs of chasseurs at their heels, Lou and Reid need allies. Strong ones, but protection always comes with a price, and the group is forced to embrace on separate quests to build their forces, as Lou and Reid try to close the widening rift between them, the dastardly Morgane baits them into a lethal game of cat and mouse that threatens to destroy them. 

Okay, you know this book is bad when you are rooting for the villain to kill the MCs. The only one I liked out of this whole book was Ansel and well, we all saw what happened there. I just felt like this book was building and building for something to happen that never did. If someone was to ask me what this book was about tomorrow, I would have no clue whatsoever. I didn’t feel like there was any character development or progress between the couples that were formed in the first book. I didn’t understand or care for the plot again because both MCs drove me nuts. Expect for Lou and Reid, I remember two characters and that because they carried the book being Coco and Ansel. I felt like I was getting whiplash with both going against their word every chapter. I wanted them to each love each other and stick together or try and kill each other and again, the miscommunication trope drove this book into the dirt. This book could have been 100 pages long and it would have more plot that the 500-page book I've just finished.  

The only reason this didn’t get one star is because of the dual POV.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Child death, and Sexual content

kat1105's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Vomit, War, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Self harm and Sexual content

roaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual content, War, Misogyny, Torture, Alcohol, Religious bigotry, and Vomit

sealbrecht's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Self harm, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Animal death

ara02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism, Grief, Genocide, Blood, Kidnapping, and Torture

Minor: Confinement, Child death, and Abandonment

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Body horror, Confinement, Torture, Blood, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Child death, Cursing, and Murder

saurahsaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Vomit, Grief, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Torture

delaney_de_spain's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, and Child death

Minor: Religious bigotry

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Cannibalism, Kidnapping, and Vomit

julia87's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

2.75

This book wasn’t bad per se, but it put me in a slump. The beginning was slow, the conflicts between characters unoriginal, and the climax didn’t really feel engaging? Lou felt like a whole different person than she was in book one. She just wasn’t as lovable? I understand that was part of the plot, but I just wasn’t loving it. Reid didn’t really get much development until roughly 300 pages in. It wasn’t all bad, the story was exciting here and there, but it definitely left me questioning whether the next book is worth buying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Kidnapping