Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

70 reviews

barbarianmissy's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

3.5 ⭐️ 

This was a cute lil stand alone. I really like Carissa Broadbent’s writing style! Since it was so short, I didn’t feel as super connected to the characters but I thought it was a lovely little vampire story! Excited to see more of Lilith and Vale in the rest of the series! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

sabrinabeschke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Rape

shannnne_reads_words's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

coveredinivy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and War

takahapa's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Chronic illness, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Death

thevanessa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It was so cute. You could read this without reading the actual series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

elledanie's review against another edition

adventurous sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

etymoye's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

★★★★★ 

 

Available on Kindle Unlimited 

 

Genres: New Adult Fiction, High Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal / Supernatural, Competent Heroine 

Tropes: Vampires, Age Gap 

Moods: Adventurous, Dark, Emotional 

 

This was really good! More of a novella, so things move kind of quickly, but it never felt rushed, IMO. The development of the relationship always felt natural to me. I look forward to catching glimpses of this couple in book 2! 

 

Safety Stats: 

Ages:

Ages are not stated, but the implication is that, as a vampire, Vale has lived hundreds of years.

 

Cheating:

None.

 

Other OM/OW:

Lilith walks in on Vale having sex with OW before they are a couple. It’s clearly a casual arrangement, BUT this scene added nothing to the book and should have been cut, IMO.

 

Separation:

None, really.

 

Triggers:

None.

 

HEA/HFN?:

HFN

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Blood

doahdancer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

Fun, but very short with little world building or character development. I read books 1&2 of The Crowns of Nyaxia before picking this up and I think it's a pretty sensible order. This could be read between 1&2 also, but all the world building is in book 1. This couple plays a minor role in book 2 and it was fun to see afterwards how they came to be.

The MCs of this story are more likable than the MCs of the main storyline, but they are also less complex. The FMC is well developed because it is her view we're seeing it all unfold through, but the MMC is underdeveloped in my opinion.

Overall a nice read that I easily finished up in half a day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

greyskale's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

I adored this little book so much! I related to Lilith, I loved her struggles with human connection. She is very clearly autistic and I love the representation as an autistic person myself. 

I loved the blossoming love between Vale and Lilith and all the little ways he understood her when everyone else did not. Watching their relationship grow was truly something else. I loved these two so much 🖤

It had a satisfying, heart warming ending with a bittersweet tinge. Can’t wait to read more about these two. 

The only reason this is not a full 5 star read is the lack of world building, I had a hard time visualizing where this all took place. But the characters and story were great! 

Vale: I like her, I like that autistic woman

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

There is a passage about a needle that made me cringe at the description.

there is a part where Lilith is attacked on the road, the attackers tell her to remove her dress, it is implied they wanted to assault her. Nothing happens and she is saved before her dress is removed

Mentions of rape