Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

11 reviews

oz2021's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Child death and Car accident

ohknellah's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Vomit, Death of parent, and Classism

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Such a strange story! Oddly (appropriately) enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

pipettesandpages's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, and Xenophobia

siebensommer's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

how terrifying, how thrilling to be seen

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

juliusclearance's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is one of those books that is incredible but I’ll never read again. I cried at the end. It was so compelling. I couldn’t read it for more than fifteen minutes at a time or I knew it would ruin me. It did anyway. I cried again when I talked about it in bookclub. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Blood

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

rilynjewett's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexism, Xenophobia, Blood, and War

Minor: Confinement, Eating disorder, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

alleahwebb's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

scifi_rat's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rheagoveas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness and Violence