Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Children of Men by P.D. James

4 reviews

vnfhcxksiw's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Classism, Body horror, Blood, Death, Deportation, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, and Violence

jjb21's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Engagingly written. Felt older - reminded me of 1984 or Midwich Cuckoos, with a bit of 39 Steps thrown in. Quite slow and steady. But very evocative and interesting. A great humdrum/English/believable dystopia.

Only real gripe is the stakes at the end didn’t feel high enough, so I was left wondering slightly what the point was

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Infertility, Infidelity, Blood, Death, Violence, and Medical content

lindseylosers's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Read the book because I love the movie. Unfortunately, most all of the interesting and complex themes, situations, and relationships from the movie are not present in the book. Imagine my frustration when I finally realized there were going to be no fugees. Shout out to the team that adapted this story for the movie, they really were spinning straw into gold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder

dangitbobby's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I started off excited since the movie is one of my favorites, but I realized about a third of the way in that it wouldn't be the same. I ended up disappointed. Even if I had never watched the film adaptation, I still would not have enjoyed the book any more than the 2 stars I rated it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Suicide, and Violence