Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

13 reviews

cinnaminskies's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Grief

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kirjakimalainen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

laura_hart15's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

It was confusing at first with the POV changes between Phoebe, Marcus, and Diana. But once I made it about 35/40% it started making sense, therefore I was able to start enjoying it more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

laurenleigh's review

adventurous challenging dark informative slow-paced

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

4.0

I loved the first three books so much, it was a given I’d pick this up. The first three were such a trilogy structurally, and this does somewhat continue that storyline, but focuses more on Marcus and Phoebe. I didn’t personally love a lot of the gory details of becoming a vampire, but I’m working on loosening my hold on those phobias. The other half is historical fiction set in late 18th C America, which Professor Harkness does so well, unsurprisingly. It was honestly interesting to read about inoculations and infectious disease of that time period. I didn’t realize how much damage smallpox did to Washington’s soldiers. If you’re into this series, vampires, and/or Revolutionary War historical fiction, you’ll enjoy this. Otherwise it probably won’t appeal to you!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Blood

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and War

lamianoctalis's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

It isn't a must read but gives you an inside into Marcus past as well as more of Diana's and Matthew's dynamic with their family. I wasn't that interested in the Pheobe plotline.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, and War

Minor: Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

lucyatoz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Time's Convert is an intriguing prequel and sequel to Deborah Harkness All Souls trilogy that, at times, it was difficult to keep a track of the narrative with it jumping between Marcus Whitmore's backstory and the present for Diana Bishop and Matthew de Claremont and their children and Phoebe Taylor, a human warmblood and Marcus' mate as she becomes a vampire.

It does not capture my imagination in the same way that A Discovery of Witches did, however it was still worth reading just to get the history of Matthew's son, Marcus and how they become fledgling vampires! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism

saroreen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, War, and Classism

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Slavery and Toxic relationship

frenandjen's review

slow-paced

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

3.0

I Loved the first three books in the trilogy and very much enjoyed the revisiting the characters however, the editing was off on this book. And unfortunately, it repeatedly took me out of the magic of this story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Mental illness

ka_ke's review

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

A good comfort read. If you have not read the All Souls trilogy, do not start here. Times Convert is a welcome look into the life of Marcus, Matthew’s son and the journey to becoming a vampire, in this universe’s version anyway. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Medical content, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, and Xenophobia