Reviews tagging 'Child death'

War by Laura Thalassa

12 reviews

twinklepuff's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Child death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Gore

katbenimble's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

The hero was better in this one, but the FMC was AN IDIOT.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Grief, Child death, Animal death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Blood, War, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Murder, Medical content, and Gore

emmathebookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

3.5

This was definitely better than the first book. However, I felt like something was missing. I would’ve liked to see more of War’s POV,  which could’ve really captured his moral struggles throughout the story. It’s a bit slow at times and the end was quite fast, but that doesn’t make the book much less enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Violence, War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Vomit, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

dontwritedown's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Better than the last ....but it's starting to get predictable. Horseman comes and foes horseman things, horseman finds woman marked by God for him, woman reluctant to join him, eventually they fall in love, woman dies and Death ressurects her. 

I'm curious how Death's book is going to go, but not looking for to Famine as it appears to be the exact same thing. 

At least the horseman in this version had a personality though sometimes Miriam's was lacking. 

Solid book though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Death of parent, Death, and Child death

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Child death, Death, Rape, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and War

alibookedup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

I really enjoyed this more than pestilence!

What I liked”
- “wife”
- “for your soft heart”
- war was a more amusing and attractive male counterpart and I was very here for the Khal drogo vibes (without rape)
- Miriam as a MFC was also more enjoyable - she was less annoying for me personally than sarah. I loved her strength, attitude, and determination. In other words, she was a badass!
- much more interesting backstories delved into with both war and Miriam. I felt the world expanding in really interesting ways. Loved war talking about his brothers and some chapters from his perspective along with Miriam and her grief of losing her family
- faster romance, spicier, and really cute moments. their relationship progression was just the right speed 
- he fell first
-loved that there were more things interacting with war and Miriam like Zara and the Phobos soldiers. Having a community made from war prisoners was really interesting
- wars redemption
- “surrender”
- THE ENDING!!!!

What I didn’t like:
- sometimes I still felt like the author would have Miriam say things to sound cool or hip that felt super out of character. It was really distracting in pestilence and I feel like she reigned it in more this book but there were still sometimes that Miriam said cringey things. Like “he knocked me up real good”. 🫣🫣🫣
- plot sometimes still felt repetitive but way less so than previous book. Because the pacing was way better it was less noticeable 
- there was always some iteration of saying “the horseman”, “my horseman”, etc. it’s honestly just said way too much in both books but I did feel like it was better in this one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Child death, and War

bangiebangs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

Really enjoyable, like the first one. That said, the journey to reach a destination of happily ever after is way different here than in Pestilence. This is brutal in a different way, and has some interesting turns. 

Slow burn enemies to lovers, and I deducted half a point only because I felt there were some chapters that could have been merged. I never got bored reading, but some stuff could have been edited better/ made more concise. 

Heed the CNs, this is not mincing words (or deeds). Spice is medium. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Violence, Body horror, Bullying, War, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Murder

whitney427's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, War, Death, Pregnancy, and Child death

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Rape, and Torture

Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts

ireadinbed's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Honestly i was worried about continuing with this series despite the first book being a surprise hit for me. They are really quite dark in tone and frankly the stramy scebes in book one were really bad. 

I am happy to be proven wrong! I would say this book is significantly better than the first in many ways. It has a bit of a slower start but the meat of the story is really hard hitting. 

Im pleasantly surpfised by how different the mmc are. They could easily be clones and instead the author develops them really well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Child death, War, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Vomit

wolf013's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent