Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures by Stephen Fry

7 reviews

laurataylor's review against another edition

adventurous informative slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, Sexual assault, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Incest, Death, Gore, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Infidelity, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Rape, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Minor: War

javafenn's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Stephan Fry is a phenomenal story teller! His retellings of the Greek myths and how they influenced (or were just straight up taken and had names changed) other religions, primarily Christianity is truly fascinating. I enjoy his dramatizations of how conversations between heroes and gods occurred and I really loved how he expressed the absolute lack of logic his subject(s) had. This book expands on the first of the trilogy, Mythos. Heracles, Jason, Oedipus and more take center stage with Stephan Fry narrating his own book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Alcohol, Murder, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Misogyny, Rape, Classism, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Excrement

anka_not_anchor's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Absolutely loved this. Just as good as Mythos. Accessible mythology with no prentitiousness whatsoever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

aimeemarie's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Excrement, Incest, Blood, Death, Infertility, Murder, and Rape

rzh's review

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

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

4.0

an endearing, deeply informative and riveting retelling of some of the best ancient greek myths. i loved the footnotes and the background information, and fry occasionally taking creative license with each story adds colour and dimensions to the stories that black-and-white recountings or translations do not. the genealogical sections were at times hard to follow but fry does make it about as clear as possible! really really enjoyed this. 4 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Rape, Murder, Abandonment, War, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Infidelity, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Blood

bexh's review

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Incest, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence