Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

5 reviews

bookishbakesco's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Mental illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Infidelity, and Child abuse

rosalind's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Blood, Child death, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit, Slavery, Rape, Excrement, and Religious bigotry

rld1727's review

2.75

This book was a weird ride. I didn’t love it, but I stuck around because I had read reviews of how the plot goes kind of haywire later on in the book - it does, indeed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Vomit, Sexism, Death, Medical content, Blood, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Grief

kianga_black's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Child abuse, Abortion, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, and Blood

cptnstphy's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Brooks' prose was gorgeous and brought the reader along as if they were right there in the village, such that it was like watching a film (if not for all the grisly and demonic details, I would want to see this film). Despite the reader knowing how the book would generally end (most villagers dead of the plague) she still manages to create suspense and craft a twist ending none could have predicted (in a dazzling, exciting, and satisfying way, in my opinion). The characters were well-crafted, some with unexpected nuance, although our hero was perhaps too Good and without many interesting flaws. Year of Wonders gripped me from beginning to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Hate crime, Misogyny, Child death, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Gore, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Abortion, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Infertility, Addiction, Death of parent, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Confinement, and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery and Rape