Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

6 reviews

bookmuva's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I loved this book so much more than I originally thought. It took me a bit to get used to the way it’s written in Scots/English but it added more to the book. Some parts were super out of left field and hard to read, but all in all an interesting story. It was hard to keep up with the characters, but once you get them in order you see how all their lives intersect. Another book I would potentially read again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

wantstoloveajedi's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

chayaxlea's review against another edition

dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Abortion, and Alcohol

porporina's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

richardw2024's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.5

Trainspotting is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I actually didn't finish it the first time I read it, but recently came back and re-read it and ended up really enjoying it.

The main thing to be aware of is the writing style. The book is written entirely in Scottish dialect, quite a lot of which is phonetic, which forces you to read it in a Scottish accent and it also uses Scottish dialect words. It took me about 20 or so pages to get used to - once I was used to it, I was able to read at a reasonable speed and wasn't really thinking too much about it (until I got to a bit that I didn't understand and had to re-read/think about). I didn't like it at first but I did as the book went on, I felt that it got me more into the characters heads and lives. If you aren't used to the Scottish dialect though, I think that this would be a really difficult book to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, and Sexual content

meepymorpy's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy