Reviews tagging 'Blood'

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

11 reviews

bookbird's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

A really gorgeous, quiet story about an adolescent summer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, and Infertility

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

emotional relaxing fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Alcohol, and Pregnancy

Minor: Blood

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

It’s a cute, fast read. It’s a slice of life story, so there is no defined beginning or end. Nothing is resolved, which makes sense because that’s how real life works, but as a reader, I prefer knowing without a shadow of a doubt how things turn out for the character.

The two main characters are two girls in their early teens, and it was refreshing to read a story where the children are written realistically!

And the art is incredibly gorgeous!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Blood, Pregnancy, Grief, and Miscarriage

hmbk's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Pregnancy, Infertility, Sexism, and Blood

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

It was pretty good. The author really illustrated a snapshot of being a young girl very well. I feel like many girls have been a Rose or a Windy at some point in their life. If you are looking for a deep plot or some kind of conclusive... conclusion? this may not be for you. I would enjoy this as almost a series of vignettes about "this one summer".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Infertility, Sexism, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Blood

farrengreen's review against another edition

dark sad

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Miscarriage, Cursing, and Misogyny

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Blood

bex_knighthunterbooks's review

emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

This is a character-driven coming of age story of a summer Rose spends with her family at a lake house. Her family situation is complex, with her mother suffering from depression after infertility issues, and so the story has a quiet melancholy feel as so much goes unsaid. The story is also focussed on the friendship Rose has with another younger girl, which was not without its difficulties with their age gap and long time between seeing each other. The art was evocative and effective at telling the story, but I found the story itself more sparse than I prefer and I didn't feel moved despite the emotional content. In the end I felt a little dissatisfied with the resolution when so much is left no better than before, and the character development is minimal for everyone - which is why I consider this to be a slice-of-life story. Overall, it didn't really work for me but was an enjoyable enough way to spend a few hours, and I can see why others would enjoy this more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Sexism

Moderate: Infertility, Grief, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Body shaming

mezzoanddolce's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexism, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, and Cursing

bexdorothy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Alcohol, Cursing, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Fatphobia, Medical content, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, and Medical trauma

her_littleclouds's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

1.5

Windy was the only character I sort of liked but even that is putting it really lightly! Rose was an absolute bitch to windy, Jenny and her mom, it really didn’t feel justified too. There are scenes where windy and Jenny just like stand and listen to other peoples conversations and then gossip about them and it was really uncomfortable to read. I was thinking about dnf’ing this book multiple times while I read it! There was really nothing likeable about it tbh. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, and Miscarriage

windy and rose are basically bullying Jenny about her pregnancy. Dud and his friend group talk about drugs, sex and curse a lot. In the last few pages the mom talked about her miscarriage and a little blood is shown in that panel! If these are things that make u uncomfortable In any way I would definitely not recommend this book