Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

22 reviews

lyonsdenprojects's review

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

sweetteaandfiction's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

Your Blood, My Bones by @kayaydrew is going to haunt me for a long time. 

PROS: 
🍄Ancestral Magic 
🍄‍🟫Immortality 
🍄Eldritch Beings 
🍄‍🟫The Trio 
🍄The Rip in the Fabric of the World 
🍄‍🟫Slightly 
🍄Mama
🍄‍🟫Powerful Witches 
🍄Beauty in decay 

CONS: 
🍄‍🟫Power Hungry Men 
🍄Spiders 
🍄‍🟫A SPLASH of Body Horror 
🍄There is a slight divergence in the story line, but it just left me wanting more of the other characters stories 

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐out of 5 over protective old goats 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

callistag1's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

amacmanus's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

saucy_bookdragon's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

1.0

It's giving early draft with how underdeveloped every aspect felt and the heavy amount of telling instead of showing. The premise was intriguing as it's lowkey a fucked up remix of Peter Pan, but is lost in execution.

Also, I felt the use of Wicca was just cliche and leaned into stereotypes that pagan religions are demonic/evil. Not saying that's what the author was intending, rather that's how I read it. With that said, I am not very familiar with Wicca nor the author and so do not know how accurately it was portrayed, so take it with a grain of salt and correct me if I'm wrong. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

modernmatilda's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

cjdbooks1's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

hiashleynine's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Blood

Moderate: Confinement and Death

Minor: Death of parent

leahjanespeare's review

3.0

I wanted to love this sooooooo badly!!!!
The Whispering Dark was one of my favorite books of 2022 and was a knockout debut. Sadly, this sophomore novel was a slump for me, and I am crushed. 

The ideas were there, the atmosphere were there, but I think it needed tightening up, and more clarity on the magic system and dynamics between the main characters. I kept losing track of who was 'good' and who was 'evil' - and no it's not because they were morally gray, I was trying to keep track of motives and why anybody was doing what they were doing. Also a character had two names, I think? I thought it was a narrator inconsistancy but then later on it was clear that no, he had two variations of his name. And who was I supposed to be rooting for romance wise? I think it was a love triangle but I am actually not sure.

Also, the similarities to The Raven Boys were SO STRONG that I couldn't help but compare it and since Raven Boys is one of my all time fav series, this one didn't have a chance.
(farm setting, dead parents, weird magic, curses, barn-set, love triangle, undead animals, twisted friend groups, sentient environment)

ANYWAY I hope the next one is better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

tnemelce's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship