Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos

13 reviews

e_riahh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Classism

friendly_neighborhood_grandma's review against another edition

4.5

This one went by really quickly. Cristelle dabos is a genius who can create very unique and complicated world, politics and relationships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Vomit

bluebreex's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Gun violence and Blood

anarchist_al's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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

Review of entire quartet on last book. I did miss the Pole setting, and starting on Babel took some time to get interesting hence the four stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Infertility, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Classism

dorianablu83's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

thorn has me in a chockehold, I want Archibald to be my bestie and Victoria seems so cute. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

japanasi's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

I love this story and universe so much! it is so much fun to read these books

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

harmony822's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Body horror and Sexual harassment

saoreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

From Winter's Promise, The Missing of Clairdelune, to The Memory of Babel - the Mirror Visitor series never fails to leave me hanging. I'm seeing sorts of pattern how the story would start out and it would always give Ophelia a confiding person that displays a huge role later on like how she met Archibald, Gail, Fox, then Ambrose, Blaise or even Mediana and Octavio (though I think Mediana no longer's part of the picture). For the last book, I expect both couple will journey this stage together to unveil the secret. I had seething rage for the most part seeing the heroine in such situation, it was utterly unfair and really distressing but how she handled her affairs was very humane of her like in that certain circumstance that was the most plausible decision she could have made. The plot twist really gave me utmost goosebumps, now it gets interesting more than ever as many characters get introduced. From Book 1 to 2, it was Farouk's side POV that was included, and from Book 3 was Victoria's (his child). So, unto the succeeding parts it may continue that way since this little child has uncovered alot of discoveries (through her so-called journeying).

I'm curious to know what happened to Fox.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Stalking, and Murder

chaoticace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Gun violence, Blood, and Medical content

grimmdark's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

out of all 3 books i've read so far, definitely my favorite. it's actually really cool to see how much the author improves and where with each tome. loved babel as a setting!!!! so many cool characters!!!! can't wait to read the next and final book. maybe i'll come back for a review later phew!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture

Minor: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Stalking