Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Seafire by Natalie C. Parker

10 reviews

mj1588's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

aerialthief's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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: Death and Drug use

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexism, and Blood

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

kell_xavi's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

asahome's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

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

4.25

A girl makes a costly mistake that causes her to lead a life fighting those who took advantage. As a woman she leads others in their fight for survival and revenge.

Plot or Character: I think the third person single point of view requires a character driven writing style. However, the character didn't grow a lot in the first book. This was mainly about setting up the world and characters.

Loveable Characters: There were some characters I liked a lot. I wouldn't say I love any of the characters yet, but there are a few growing on me.

Diverse cast of Characters: The ship most of the plot takes place on is full of women and girls. That's the only reason I didn't say yes to this question. There is lesbian representation, someone using sign language to communicate, and skin tones ranging from "midnight" to "pale". The sign language dialogue was awesome because Parker didn't attempt to directly translate signs or refer to it as anything other than the character speaking. I also liked how everyone on the crew learned how this character communicated and her entire society also understood her. This is very different from the way my culture handles sign language. I didn't notice any prosthetics or wheelchairs, but I have trouble reading long blocks of texts without dialogue. If they were in descriptions of the towns they walked through, I missed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and War

alexalily's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Slavery, Torture, and Death of parent

itsnotalakeitsanocean's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.25

I think I went in like a lot of people expecting something slightly different to what the book claimed itself to be. This is by no means a bad story, just a bit predictable at times. It was fun to see the crew get into situations and see how they would get out, even if sometimes they got out of situations a bit too easily.

Also like a few people, I went in expecting some f/f content and was disappointed when there wasn't anything

unless you count that one character making eyes at someone moments before she was injured. There's nothing wrong with having a queer author not have any explicit queer rep in their stories, but there's enough subtext to make it feel like there was something there; it feels like either the relationship in question was cut at the last minute or the author was censored by the publisher (I feel like the former is more likely, and maybe it will be bought up again in a future installment).

Speaking of relationships, I was so confused at the Cal/Oran relationship that came out of nowhere. The book felt like it had been building towards Pi/Oran and then it swerved starboard seemingly to make an enemies to lovers relationship for the hell of it. Cal should have been allowed to forgive Oran without the awkward romance angle, and the relationship feels a bit comphet for my liking.

Finally, although I am definitely going to read the next book, I can't help but think

the ending where Cal goes and raids the Bale Blossom alone despite her crew saying AT LEAST THREE TIMES THAT THEY'RE HER FAMILY AND THAT IF THEY MAKE A BAD DECISION, IT'S TOGETHER feels like it was just there to spring a sequel hook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Death, Vomit, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

kayyyqgilbs's review

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Death

Minor: Child death and Blood

booksthatburn's review against another edition

Very description- and action-heavy, even the calm moments are packed with descriptions of where everyone is and exactly what they're doing. Not what I'm looking for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Kidnapping

crzicricket's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-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

4.5

I loved this book, every minute of it. The character driven parts of the story were amazing, the inclusion was just great, and I loved the change of pace for where a story takes place. (for me)

I am excited for the next book and to see where the story goes. To see how the characters grow and push each other, and how they will overcome the challenges that were put against them in this book that carry over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, and Vomit

literarycavy's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Slavery and Trafficking