Reviews tagging 'Gore'

La bruja blanca by Shelby Mahurin

28 reviews

prof_pelon's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

emmahe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Child death

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

4.0

Never have I been so simultaneously delighted and frustrated to read the rest of a series. I love the characters in this book. I don’t think I fully understand the plot, but the characters are strong enough in any situation that knowing the storyline isn’t completely necessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

delaney_de_spain's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

thecatconstellation's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, and Alcohol

mortonsspoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Kidnapping

eve_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted sad 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

4.0

Overall Thoughts:
⁕ The characters in the book are very archetypal and common in YA fantasy, BUT Mahurin backs up their portrayals really well.

⁕ The main romance is one of the better enemies to lovers I’ve read. It doesn’t feel rushed, and even after the characters develop feelings there’s still lots of uncertainty between them.

⁕ The magical system in this one is really interesting. Forget the whole “spells require energy” thing! Mahurin makes her characters sacrifice things of equal value to the spells they cast — but it’s all up to their interpretation of what that means.

⁕ I was disappointed by how this book approaches gender. It takes a very binary perspective and ties womanhood to reproduction, which is super exclusionary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Sexism, and Violence

readwithsuzanna's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Torture, Violence, and Blood