Reviews tagging 'Death'

Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

36 reviews

love3v07's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

dkgreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I’m tired, you guys. My heart can’t take the abuse any more. It’s. Not. F*cking. Fair. 😭😭😭

UPDATE: Re-read to finish the series. It’s worse than I remember, and I remember it being really f*cking brutal 😭 I’m kinda terrified to start Book 8….

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hbae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

jackeline_cruz_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, and Murder

morgrennacki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide

kingrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Did this book chew up my heart and spit it out? Yes. Did it tear my soul into tiny pieces? Also yes. But it had my thanking it and asking for more. I love these characters so much and we’ve come such a long way from the villainous Heirs and ignorant Vegas. I am at the edge of my seat waiting for the finale of this series. Though I’m very upset I have to way until December 2022 for the final book. I waited nearly 4 months to start reading this book trying to close the gap between the two of them since I was able to consecutively consume books 1-6. Alas, I was weak and NEEDED to know what happened, and even still I tried to make this book last. Luckily it is super long (but super good and it does not drone on like some long fantasy books do) and so heavy that I couldn’t read the book in a night or two like I’d done with the previous books. I think I’ll just have to read the boys’ POV and the other short stories (and possibly Ruthless Fae) to get my Zodiac fix for the next 8 months. Peckham and Valenti need to stop trying to kill us!

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

alli_the_bookaholic13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kat1105's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

charhollyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

If you’re looking for an emotional rollercoaster, this series is the one for you. If you’re reading book 6 and looking forward to book 7, stop at 86% and pretend everything is okay and happy in Solaria. 
The pacing is wild, there was moments of absolute hysterical laughing, and moments of absolute despair and I would not change it for the world.
This series has made me feel the full scale of emotion, recommended when I asked for a series that would “punch me in the face” with emotion. Well, mission successful…

nobody is safe. Orion and Darcy have a sliver of hope, but that’s it. Darius is fucking dead, Gabriel is practically doomed, I don’t even want to THINK about Geraldine and Xavier and I absolutely cried at Catalina and Hamish. That was absolutely fucking heartbreaking

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, and War

Moderate: Grief

joyceca's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

OMG! I hate the authors so much, but absolutely loved this book. We got some great character development from more minor characters which I truly appriciated. I could have done without the Lionel chapters, but I understand why they are there. I love rooting for these characters and I just need everyone to be happy in the end. 
I did see a few of the plot points coming, but it didn't make them any less heartbreaking. I really need a bunch of questions answered and I swear to god if the following things don't happen, I will be very annoyed.

 

• Darius somehow being resurrected, or at the very least Tori accepting it and being happy in her own right.
• Orion and Darcy getting married and finally getting to relax
• Seth and Caleb getting their happy ever after
• Xavier getting new wings! - I don't know how I have seen no one talk about this. Has he not been through enough? I was sadder about this than Darius dying. 

 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Toxic relationship

One of the Lionel chapters has him being sexually assaulted by Lavinia