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Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

244 reviews

shaynicole's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, and Kidnapping

mj_86's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Blood

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, and Colonisation

peachmoni's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Racism, Slavery, Grief, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Rape, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

hayreading's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

Got this book on a whim bc it was cheap. Was pleasantly surprised, though I'm getting really tired of Bree making an irrational decision and then immediately facing the consequences. I'm not sure if she's made one good choice through both books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

asymmetricwhale's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, Blood, and War

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Violence, and War

emma6544's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

I loved the first book so I was looking forward to the sequel but it really disappointed me. 

The start of this book was great and the build up of the plot with the Legendborn society alongside the character development. 

However, the ending really disappointed me. It felt flat and it has lost the shark of the first book. So I am unlikely to continue with the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Blood, and War

samellecooke's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

A great continuation of the Legendborn Cycle series. While I felt both books were longer than they maybe needed to be, I did enjoy reading it. We see Bree start to take charge of her story which is amazing to see while she is battling so much: supernatural forces and creatures, grief from her mom's and friends' deaths, and pressure to fill shoes she had zero idea she would ever have to fill. Tracy Deonn continues to do an excellent job of exploring themes of racism, sexism, and slavery and bringing the dark, ugly truths to light. Her ability to write this into fantasy is what kept me reading in the first book when I wanted to stop. 

I held back giving this book a 5 because of some of the relationships in this book. I am thoroughly confused by the love triangle we have going on between Bree, Nick, and Sel. In general, love triangles aren't for me so that's just a personal preference, but I felt like the lack of communication between Bree and Sel caused by this strenuous relationship held the story back for me a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexism

Moderate: Death and Violence

saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

”I will make it a nightmare on my own terms if i must.”

This series makes me more nostalgic for the YA fantasy I read as a teen more than any sequel to the series I actually read as a teen could.

Bloodmarked is a jammed-pack twisty sequel that expands on the world and characters, in particular fleshing out how the broader fantasy world works and characters such as Sel and William (my sons). Though the pacing could’ve been better, there’s a lot that happens in this and it at times can feel random or plotless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Misogyny, Rape, Slavery, and Violence

gracepizza40's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, and Classism