Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Lord Loss by Darren Shan

5 reviews

johnathanwet's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I read this series as a child and can’t believe I got through them. I was such a scaredy cat over everything but absolutely loved these. Good news: the horror elements absolutely hold up.

What I didn’t remember was the misogynistic introduction to our main character. I was shocked but guiessi shouldn’t have been in a “boys” book, unfortunately.

This book is also veeery slow. High octane beginning slows into a crawl through the middle, before revving back up for the finale.

Ultimately a fun, easy read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

charlizardbookboi17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenbaggy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Injury/Injury detail

darkefyres's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Infidelity and Medical content

ludmireads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? No

3.5

I was sceptical at the beginning, because I’m not the target audience anymore but my friend loves this series (he’s been trying to get me to read it for years) and he gifted me his whole collection and I promised him I’d give it a try. 

And I enjoyed it! It was a bit darker than I thought, but I loved that. I’m mad that it took me so long to listen to my friend and read it because younger me would absolutely love this!

There was one thing that was very confusing and that I didn’t like that much and it was the format (NOTE: I read the Czech translation and have no idea if this is in other languages too). It was kinda weird that the paragraphs weren’t visibly separated. I’m used to stopping in the middle of chapters so sometimes I had no idea where I stopped reading and it’s also “aesthetically” not that pleasing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail