Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

91 reviews

aeternus's review

emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

jenlengland's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit, and Alcohol

thegayestghost's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Grief

naked_ryan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.5

I really enjoyed this book. Been in a bit of a reading slump but this was so intriguing I had to push through, and I’m glad I did. Very mysterious and tense story. I will say the ending felt a little rushed. I feel like the

fight with the wheetigo

could have been longer and more detailed. But otherwise very exciting story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Blood, and Car accident

angievansprang's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

This book was great on audio, the characters really came alive. This is a chilling story that revolves around sisterhood, complicated family dynamics, and self forgiveness. I thought Johns did a fantastic job taking a practical, relatable situation and spinning it in the direction of horror and folktales that many of us have heard. Several scenes in this made me feel like I needed to catch my breath, but I really fell in love with our main character and her family. Totally a story of strong women supporting each other intergenerationally. Cannot wait to see what this author does next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Gore and Injury/Injury detail

zombiezami's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug use, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kaitlinmarie27's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Grief

rachelle_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful tense

4.75

One young woman’s dreams get out of control, and she goes home to be with the women of her family and to find out why her dreams have become that way. This book started slowly for me, but the last few chapters flew by. In the meantime, I very much enjoyed the exploration of Mackenzie’s relationships with the women of her generation and the older generations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

imscrem's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

3.0

I liked this book pretty well until the second to last chapter, which involved a bunch of disgusting body horror. I’m not a fan of gore at the best of times, but I was listening to this audiobook while making my dinner, which…left a bad taste in my mouth.

Besides that, I did enjoy the family and friend dynamics that this book contained. I especially enjoyed the aspects of the book that functioned as more of a supernatural mystery than as gruesome body horror. Fortunately, that *was* the majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

iloponis's review against another edition

5.0

beautiful, rich, visceral, captivating

i was so sucked in to the details of mackenzie's family, her aunties and mother, and all of the relationships between them. truly a beautiful portrait of grief and of family

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Gore, Blood, and Grief