Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green

22 reviews

elledanie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Confinement

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

There were parts of this book that I didn’t find particularly engaging, but the themes were fascinating. I deeply enjoyed the topics that Green raised in the book, especially observations about what motivates people and how that affects how our society works. I appreciate the way Green makes his characters flawed, and how that isn’t always resolved in the ways that we want. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Blood, Death, and Addiction

Minor: Classism, Colonisation, and Grief

chaoticnostalgia's review

lighthearted 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Sexism, Confinement, and Addiction

Moderate: Stalking and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Animal death

saricostanzo's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, Racism, Death, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

readandfindout's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 5 stars
Characters: 3.5 stars
Plot: 5 stars
Worldbuilding: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Death, Police brutality, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Racism, and Vomit

piper_'s review

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Homophobia

nerfie's review

adventurous funny 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

This book kept me hooked to my couch with only five minute interruptions for food and the bathroom without Vyvanse. If you have ADHD, you know that this doesn't happen.

The plot structure is absolutely brilliant. In the least spoiler way possible, this book makes you wait a decent amount of way in to resolve something painfully unresolved from its predecessor. This was a brilliant decision made by Hank. It made the necessary exposition and character development fly by just as quickly as the action-packed chapters, and made all the intermittent parts afterward go much faster.

I highlighted so much in this book. There is so many sentences casually meta and on point that would cause me to stop and think about our society.

The book does a great job of broadening the scope from the first novel, but that being said, it is very different. I wonder if some readers won't enjoy it as much, simply because of the much widened world (and not just because of the addition of multiple perspectives). I can see how this book would not meet expectations, but while I would agree that it did surprise me, I'd say it did so in an overwhelmingly positive way.

This is one of those series that I wish I could re-read for the first time, so if this is on your TBR, pick it up and do it for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Blood

claudiamacpherson's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Gun violence

Minor: Medical content, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Racism

jenarae's review

adventurous informative mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Blood, Death, Vomit, Classism, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Outing

youreawizardjerry's review

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Vomit, Kidnapping, Blood, and Death