Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

88 reviews

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.25

Unfortunately a bit of a book two slump for me. It's the whole: the two main characters are separated from each other the whole book, which is often not fun to read. I also felt like not a ton really happened for like 90% of the book? There was a lot of characters just talking, but not in a super politically interesting way? Sometimes I wonder if there are too many sides to the political intrigue. I did like the expansion of some character's involvement (Iktan). It just felt like a LOT of setup...

Can't wait to see where Serapio and Naranpa go together...

I really loved the first book and I am still excited to read the third, final, book to see where this whole series ends up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

pertenzie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Death

kirchnerkd's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and War

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Grief, Alcohol, and War

sonias's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

morgancvtherine's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

avacadosocks's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

god i love a well made fantasy world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

As a second book in a trilogy, Fevered Star does a lot of the things that middle books do - a lot of traveling back and forth as characters have to get to new places and discover new backstory, small expansions in the magic system, moments that begin to deepen the world building and conflict, etc. It felt less intentional than the first book, but likely just because we are no longer counting down toward a specific event, and have to navigate the "after." I loved the symmetry of the starting and ending action on sun rock and our expanded understanding of the gods and god powers. 

There were a few POVs I wanted more of, but I ultimately understand why we had the characters we did in this installment and appreciate where we ended and where we will likely go from here.

Again, the full-cast audio production is excellent and I highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Some pretty gross eyeball moments!