Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Squire by Sara Alfageeh, Nadia Shammas

62 reviews

huntress's review

adventurous reflective tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

tinysierra's review

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Squire is so good!

I loved the characterization! Especially in the chapter where we got to see the main characters writing back home to their families.

There is no romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and War

dododenise's review

dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

nefariousbee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring fast-paced

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

3.5

I'm always down for some anti-military critique. the second half was too rushed for its own good tho, it didn't hit as much as it could. it's a good story. too bad it didn't get more pages to unravel the change in everyone's minds more slowly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Blood, and Colonisation

peachylite's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

rainbowrocky's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, and War

saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

3.5

Beautiful art with warm, saturated colors and a story that deals with themes of militarism, colonialism, and xenophobia. Steeped in an underrepresented historical culture. It's pretty simple, handling the themes by subverting what one would expect from this kind of story, particularly by being critical of the empire. Though I wish the characters had more dimension. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

sophiesometimesreads's review

adventurous challenging fast-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

4.25

The art style of this graphic novel was nice and I liked the action scenes, particulalry. I felt like some of the early parts of the novel were a little wordy and the panels didn't have a lot going on, despite the actual drawings being done well technically, which made some parts drag a little for me. I liked the premise of the story though, and the ideas it presents on colonisation, racism/classism, military and revisionist history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and War

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Blood

abarnakwn_ourcolourfulpages's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail