Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

10 reviews

laurajordensharris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

jessisangle's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

ellagibbs's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

Seemed very long and drawn out for what it was. Brown seemed to try and overcomplicate most plot points. Just doesn’t pack the punch that both Angels & Demons and the DaVinci Code did very well. However, I did like the character of Katharine Solomon even though she was somewhat emotionally flat.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Violence

Minor: Blood

peachmoni's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Gun violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse and Abandonment

ellahoward_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Interesting book and did enjoy, I just didn’t feel as intrigued with this secret societies background as books 1 and 2. As always love the debate between religion and science and how is connects to different parts of our society. 

TW: Body mutilation, drowning, homicide 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

iris_jv's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

Imo the weakest of the three books in this series I’ve read thus far (Angels&Demons, Da Vinci Code).

Most easy to figure the villain out, villain itself being a repulsive human, doing the most inhumane things. Also slightly more unbelievable/un-logical than the other two.

Not really hitting the spot that the others did for me. Will still read the remaining two though (Inferno, Origin)🙃.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Hate crime, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

katrinarose's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

Exact same formula as his previous books except the stakes of this book were much lower and less thrilling than previous books. Entertaining nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

marianneiriss's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

lilybuddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

Oh jeez. I started this book for the 3rd time because I never understood it well and I hoped the new TV series would give me some handholds. It did! But the book is very different than the show. And quite a bit longer. With a lot of explanations. And more explanations. And expositions. Sometimes multiple times about the same thing.

Sometimes I just skipped entire paragraph because Langdon was waxing poetic about a building that didn't matter for the plot.

I get now why I could hardly follow it the first 2 times. I could barely follow it now. The story gets buried beneath the author's apparent need to prove how much research he did, which is an impressive amount, it has to be said. 

All in all, I'm glad I read it again but I'm less enthused than I thought I'd be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

laurawoods13's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Torture