Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Alas de sangre by Rebecca Yarros

98 reviews

eed8's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and War

infjkiki's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Vomit

pdiaz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and War

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

klm2620's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Violence, and Death of parent

Read this popular fantasy novel after first two books of ACOTAR (Sarah Maas) and man if I thought I liked those (2nd more than first TBH), this one was so much better! Both feature strong female protagonist forced into difficult/impossible situations to survive (with negative/missing female/mother figures in their lives)but Violet just is overall less…annoying?whiney? Both?! 😬 and therefore while I like both male main characters in each book, respectively, I feel like I enjoyed Fourth Wing much more than I expected (the dragon thing didn’t appeal to me in the least at first but the bond turns into an interesting part/effect on the storyline).

winryrose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Stalking

pao_villalobos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Drug use

shubka's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

Reads like a YA novel with spicy scenes.  I'm a fan of YA dystopia so it was fine with me but more avid fantasy readers might find it distracting or unnecessary.  Some of the book contained jargon or phrases that seem out of place in a fantasy world that took me out of the story.  Is this a future word of Earth, past, or somewhere else?  All in all it's a fast paced adventure romance that I enjoyed & will definitely read sequels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Classism

Part of a 5 book series

s_r_sparrow's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

1.5

I hated this book. It was essentially a modge podge of every popular ya fantasy but they cussed and there were explicit scenes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism