Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The City Inside by Samit Basu

3 reviews

sarah984's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

This was a really interesting story with an all too plausible dystopia and a great sense of place. Unfortunately I don't think the dual POV worked (the guy character was boring and considering what happened with him I think his parts could have been communicated through Joey) and I didn't really like the way the "sex scandal" (if you can call it that) plotline was handled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Xenophobia, and Trafficking

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Classism, Colonisation, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Trafficking, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Blood, Body shaming, Alcohol, Deportation, Fatphobia, Medical content, Cancer, Islamophobia, and Pedophilia

booksthatburn's review against another edition

The initial worldbuilding is immersive and dizzying, a firehose of terms as if to impress indelibly the near-future-ness of the setting. Unfortunately, it was too much for me to track, too quickly, and I stopped a couple of chapters in. If the goal was to communicate the stress the characters were under, it certainly did that, but not in a way I could keep up with.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Violence, Rape, and Death