Reviews tagging 'Blood'

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris

5 reviews

owlribbon's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Blood, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Violence, Racism, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racial slurs and Rape

paigicus's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Sexual assault, and Trafficking

Minor: Homophobia

literarylion's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.75

Gorgeous, unique artwork, compelling story, fascinating characters -- this is the best graphic novel I've read in a long time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Cancer, Death of parent, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

melaniereadsbooks's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

The illustrations in this book are absolutely beautiful! The content is very difficult. It is a lot of sadness upon sadness without much respite at all, expect in a few small places.

The characters are very interesting and I really enjoyed reading about their stories. I know that parts of this are inspired by true events.

I will definitely read the sequel when it comes out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Body shaming, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Violence

boy_topics's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book is heart-breaking and can be hard to read. Its super queer and you can definitely do trans readings of it as well. The art style is one of a kind. I took some stars off because there is a lot of suspense that leads to a not so conclusive ending that seemed kind of rushed. Too many loose endings for my liking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Trafficking