Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

264 reviews

sarasbookmark's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death, Miscarriage, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Torture, Dementia, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

allisonsmith120's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Pregnancy, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Death of parent

kiaras's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Confinement, Xenophobia, Grief, and Classism

dalek_caan's review

adventurous challenging dark 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

I loved this book so much. I wasn't sure what to expect with how much hype it got, but I'm so glad I went in not knowing what to expect. For a book this big, the fact that it kept me engaged the whole way through is amazing. It was so worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

emmiej's review

adventurous challenging reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Deportation

mangofraiche's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mabechel's review

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The pacing and focus of this book is weird and a little off putting. Some portions are really focused on the day to day and engaging. Other times, the writing is very sparse on the details, even during some important key events. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this acceleration/deceleration of the pacing and it really gives the impression of losing focus. I feel like this would've been better as a more flushed out series than one gigantic book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, and War

sammy357's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

I loved the book but it's too long and a little too slow in the beginning for me to want to reread it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Torture

nanascorner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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

My only problem is with the final battle but I found out that the author originally planned a much longer battle and was talked into shortening it by an editor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Murder

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

ryleighkates's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Lovely book! Long read! Great characters! Interesting world to step into! The author paints the scene well, and the world you have the pleasure of exploring with the characters seems vast and full of many potential adventures. As I read I wished their travels wouldn't end.

The characters are wrapped up at the end almost like in a movie format when the credits end and there are little stories for each person. Unfortunately, the last 100-200 pages seemed a little rushed, especially in comparison to the first ~600 pages of build-up. Great book altogether, just wished the author paid the same attention to detail in the last couple hundred pages. It's already an 800-page book, I don't think anyone really would mind if it were a bit longer to balance the last half of the book with the first half. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Grief