Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

5 reviews

gotabookforeverysituation's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Incest, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Death, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Car accident, Abortion, Confinement, Vomit, Bullying, and Blood

lycheejelly's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abandonment, Alcohol, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Abortion, Cancer, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Fatphobia

belleden's review

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

abbsjay's review

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, and Violence

tashadandelion's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

This book reminded me a lot of Valentine, by Elizabeth Whetmore -- literary in voice, with an interior dialogue of a girl who is hanging on, just barely, amid ever worsening circumstances. While Whetmore's masterpiece contains a number of different viewpoints, this book centers on Lacey May, an abandoned teen who is in the grips of a destructive pseudo-Christian cult in a California farm town ravaged by drought. As circumstances get weirder and more dire, the pages turn faster, which is good because it started a little slow for me. Contrasted against the cult characters (who are truly ridiculous, as one must become in order to conform to a cult's requirements) are the mother-daughter team of Daisy and Florin, who live in a rickety Victorian where Daisy runs a small phone sex business. They take Lacey May into their vastly different world and expose her to life outside a cult, though arguably with just as odd a set of characters, though far more sympathetic and sane than those of the cult. I will look forward to this author's next offering.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcoholism, Confinement, Incest, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Vomit