Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Frost by C.N. Crawford

20 reviews

unboundbooklover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

attie_moon's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Death of parent, and War

mariel22's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Stalking, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: War

chai_latte_auroras's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It really is like a mix of The Bachelor and The Hunger Games. There’s mystery and action that keeps your attention and enough sexual tension to satisfy a want of spice. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Blood

doubletherazzle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.25

Fantasy where the bachelor meets hunger games and not mad about it. The writing isn’t fantastic and I caught a few editing issues and I’m sure there are plot holes if you think too hard about it, but I liked the story and the tropes - dark broody misunderstood MMC, mysterious feisty strong-willed MFC

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Bullying, Death of parent, and Abandonment

meghansarmiento97's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

beckyremillard's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ariel790's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Requires the Sequel

I am torn between rating this book a 3 or 4. The main character's motivations are shallow, her past purposely left frustratingly vague. Her relationship with Torin is clearly an enemy to lovers trope that is painstakingly slow to develop and is mostly a tease. Left in a complete cliffhanger. Most goodies promised for the sequel. Yet I wanted to keep reading and still want to follow these characters to the next tale. The world in which the characters live is messy, and complicated. The characters themselves are interesting and their drama promises intrigue. I want to praise the author for these developments. For this, I want to put a 4.

I think I will go with a 3, after writing this all down. The story is purposely left incomplete in order to do a second book. Thus leaving me as a reader unsatisfied and dependent on getting my Ava and Torin fix with a secondary purchase. I, unfortunately, am not made of money, and have to carefully deliberate each purchase. Especially in the current economy. So, it will be some time, most likely, before I can pick up the next. Even though at the moment I really, really want to. This is a testament to the author's writing and storytelling, but use of shameless tactics. As it sits with book one, the story is incomplete. There is not a satisfying conclusion or tie up of at least some events. Majority of what Ava "discovers" by the end didn't take much investigative work and was known, as the reader, before the first half. It needs more. So as a stand alone, yes a 3 rating will do. With its sequel (or sequels?) together, most likely higher. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

kassea_xoxo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Blood, and Alcohol