Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee

12 reviews

basementofbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Confinement, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

scjessie's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Murder

peachmoni's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.75

The ending felt so rushed. It really could have used room to breathe and let us feel the full weight of the final action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Pedophilia, Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Dysphoria, and Classism

feijoamuffin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This rating might change at some point. This book was difficult to read. You know when you’re reading a book and think ‘these topics are hitting too close to home for me in a bad way right now and I should probably stop reading this’ but read it anyway because the storyline has you hooked? Yeah that was me 😅 Hopefully it was worth it but seriously guys it’s well worth checking all of the content warnings for this instead of diving in head first.

On a much lighter note; Noam and Dara are precious and must be protected at all costs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

eparris's review

dark emotional funny sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and Grief

icy_queen's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual content

Minor: War

tortue's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

Just amazing even better than the first book made cry my eyes out I don’t havé criticism to make just wouaw 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Very triggering read the trigger warning before

tkhenry99's review against another edition

3.0

This book was a bit of a let down. It was also wayyyy darker than I expected and I really wasn’t expecting Noam and Lerher’s relationship. Besides that, several of the conversations about grooming, rape, etc. got very repetitive and were the same thing every time. I also didn’t really like that Dara just had every issue the author could think of. The author had to split all the page time between the sexual abuse, substance abuse, various mental illnesses, and eating disorder so nothing ever really felt developed. It felt like Dara’s character was traumatized just for the sake of having a traumatized character, and not because the author really wanted to address any of this topics. I felt like, though the issues were obviously connected to one root cause, the author didn’t draw that connection very well and Dara’s character was undeveloped/underexplored as a result. The book would’ve benefitted from flashbacks, not just Dara and Noam thinking about past events. The ending also wasn’t very satisfying. Overall I did enjoy the book and found it engaging, but it definitely could’ve been better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Incest, Blood, and Medical content

rowthecanoe's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

iridaceae's review

adventurous dark emotional 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: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Torture, Vomit, Car accident, and Colonisation