Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Dust by Hugh Howey

10 reviews

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

morris42's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Fire/Fire injury

grunzigrun's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Blood

captain_will's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Blood, and Murder

hownovelofher's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Pretty decent ending to an altogether very enjoyable series. BUT I still have soooo many questions. I wouldn’t say there are “plot holes” per se, more just like information that could be expounded upon.
I think it’s a wonderful story that was worth telling and Hugh Howey did a great job in doing so. I started watching the TV series as well and I can’t wait for the film iteration of this book.
My favorite characters were most of the supporting ones. I think my favorite aspect of the book was all the found family content.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

4.5

Brilliant end to the series. It’s going to stick with me for a long time, I’ll be thinking of the characters and imagining what they’re up to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jessy4550's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

srm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

There's a lot I like about how this series wraps up, but the tension and plot of this book relies far too often on situations that could be solved with a 15 second conversation. I'm willing to roll with maybe one instance of characters getting interrupted before they can say the important thing, or characters refusing to listen as someone tries to explain, or a character refusing to explain because the other character obviously knows what he did (untrue). But the book would be half as long without these. It just became intensely frustrating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

theimposter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

monicalaurette's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

I almost didn’t want to finish this book because then it would all end. But I was pushed through with my desire to know where the story ended. But I’m emotionally wrecked by what and who was lost in the journey outside the silos.

“Without the silo, she would be a skull on a hill looking blankly to the cloud-filled skies.”

I read this book on a plane for the most part so I wasn’t able to save any quotes but I also was just reading so fast I don’t think I would have stopped to write any down even if I wanted to. But this one above I thought was so powerful for Jules to think back on her journey so far and how she’s the only one that has walked away from the Silo, only to walk back.

As the end of this whole story arc I knew we’d lose people along the way but the specific people that were lost made me want to cry because they were so important to others around them that made it.

Overall the Silo series to me was great, excited to watch the show soon and see how that stacks up. I’m giving Dust 5 stars because it didn’t have a full happy ending, but more of a bittersweet one. I was happy with how it ended and where they got to, but I wished others were there to see it.

I told myself if Lukas died I would cry so you can already infer that I cried because of this book. He loves Jules so much and to have him go the way that he did was so brutal. Why can’t Jules have love in her life without losing it in terrible ways?

Wonder why Anna never switched the argon out of all the silos instead of just 17, because imagine if 18 were saved.

I like that Donald brought down what he helped to create to allow the other silos a chance outside. I like to think that the group that made it went back to the other Silos and told them what they needed to do to get out.

Had to reread the passage about seven times trying to convince myself that a grown man DIDN’T marry Elise but nope that’s what happened, wish Jimmy had shot that man in the face.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Pedophilia

For the pedophilia content warning - it's that a small child is tricked/forced into marrying a like 30 yo man but she's saved about thirty minutes later and nothing else happens to her.