Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Origins Of An Academy Bully by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

9 reviews

sh543's review

challenging dark sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

aliyahrenee13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

3.5

There’s not much going on yet but it was a good intro. It gave me just enough to be curious and want to know more. It also made me start to feel for the characters and I barely know them. A good read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

nineinchnails's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.75

a decent novella and gives a lot more context to darius and orion’s relationship as well as their upbringing. i’m very glad i read it after book 2 cause i think if i read this before book 1 or before book 2 it would have taken a lot of the intrigue out of it for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Incest and Death of parent

hannahwriightt's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Incest, and Injury/Injury detail

lifeofchrstnlvly's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? No

3.0

Dragons, werewolves, vampires, and sirens? Count me in. The writing is simple to understand. Plot and story are laid out plainly making it easy to read. The magic system is good. It kept me entertained enough to decide I'll continue reading the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Blood

_egg_wash's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Self harm

crinkledmochi's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

to start with the negatives;

i wasn’t really a fan of it the scene where orion bites darius and there’s like a sensual moment between them cause darius is literally 14 at the time,,, like we get that vampire bites can get a little risqué but that easily could’ve been left out in my opinion

 

another thing that frustrated me about this prequel was that we learned so much yet so very little. most of what i read towards the end was a big question mark. 

on to the positives: 

this was way more refreshing i guess since there wasn’t a huge romance focus and a bit more lore/backstory so i really appreciate that 

the stakes in this felt high even thou you know the characters are gonna be fine, i wish book one read more like this as it felt more of a large info dump 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Self harm, Torture, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Incest, Misogyny, and Classism

Minor: Pedophilia

katvou's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Blood