Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

8 reviews

lejuletre's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Rape, and Misogyny

midnightverde's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

This fantasy novel is beautifully written. There are clues throughout the story to the mysteries of the lost city of Weep, yet there are still so many questions. The characters are full of depth and it’s easy to fall in love with many of them (and passionately hate others). There is a cliffhanger at the end of the book and I have to go put the final book of the duology on hold now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Child death, Genocide, Kidnapping, Rape, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Abandonment, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

bethy_joy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Slavery

albireotales's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Loved Lazlo. Suffered for Sarai.
Hated Minya. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Torture, and Toxic friendship

dariusmortee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

This book has exactly the vibe that I love in books. It’s the magical and fairy tail feel that I also found in The Night Circus and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. It’s that wonder of the world. 
That wonder of there being more than we know and it’s what I’d wish I still could believe in. 

The writing is beautiful and although the plot is predictable, that didn’t annoy me with this one. When someone asks me again who would be the perfect book boyfriend my answer will be Lazlo Strange. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Murder, and Slavery

Minor: Rape

janereads1989's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Child death, Death, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Blood, and Abandonment

anushar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious slow-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

4.0

I’m in a reading slump right now but this book was beautiful. The story itself was not incredibly exciting or as action packed as most fantasies, but the way the author described everything with such care and reverence sucked me in. The prose of this book is incredibly hyped up and for good reason, this reads like a fairy tale but more personal. I honestly adored the characters, they were complex and funny and each relatable in their own way. I feel like this book was great at subtly tackling racism, the effects of war and how those things affect peoples characters. Overall this was very well done, however I struggled a bit while reading it simply because of the slower pace of the book. 
4/5 stars!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Rape, and Xenophobia

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexual assault