Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Oksi by Mari Ahokoivu

6 reviews

allie_fawn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

Just be warned and do not be deceived by the cover. This is not for kids and gets graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Child death, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Blood, Animal death, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gore, and Death

dananana's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood and Gore

robinks's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The illustrations were so colorful and flowy, it was so easy to just keep flipping pages. It was also cool to read about a culture’s creation myth. Poor poorling…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, and Violence

vigil's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

this could be confusing to anyone not familiar with finnish mythology like myself, but i was able to keep up adeptly enough. the art is obviously beautiful, continuing the story on in place where other graphic novel’s would’ve used words. i think oksi reached its most impressive moment when it combined the two, sliding seamlessly between art, and the written word. there are some awkward moments in the narrative, but that is often a given. all translations fail, but this one, all in all, seemed pretty solid. 

the art style is really the shining star here, and i think i would’ve been completely fine having a book with no text, just the illustrations. it totally set the atmosphere and the tone for the setting of oksi, one that is grounded heavily in a darkly whimsical forest. 

take note of “darkly whimsical” for your own sake. this book took a 180 on me when i least expected it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

pipn_t's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Beautiful art.  I read it all in one go.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

rachelwierick's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

This book is beautiful but also really disturbing. The art is incredible. The story is beautiful. I didn’t understand the Epilogue, so I’ll definitely be doing more research. Overall I really liked this but there were definitely some upsetting elements to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Violence