Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon

15 reviews

bree_h_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

NOOOOOO NOT THE SAPPHICS

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

nightstitch96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and War

emzvoice's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful slow-paced

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

3.75

An easy and enjoyable read. A protagonist torn between who she wants to be and who she’s forced to be. Solving riddles and confronting death, while coming to terms with the reality of life.

Very coming of age, for the protagonist and the princess. Both trying to figure out how to operate within their own confines and often making the wrong choices - but they learn and grow, or at least start to given this is only book one of two. 

Fun read, sapphic and immersive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

ofclumsywords's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This book is not at all what I was expecting. The plot was what drew me to this book but after the first few chapters it fell flat. The characters were terrible and shallow, with barely any backstory to them. The romance was nonexistent with no chemistry between the supposed couple. Not to mention the world building, which had no history to the land or any other magic users besides the main character who could bring back the dead. This book was a complete disappointment and I am not even considering reading the second book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

jjvaldezbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

it was compelling enough that I finished in two sittings. that is incredibly rare.

CHECK TRIGGERS

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

dcnarvaez's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-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

5.0

This is one of the best books I have read this year. Hellevir was such an amazing protagonist I loved her and wanted to wring her neck MOST TIMES but I really enjoy gentle characters who have a strong moral compass and stay true to their nature of kindness despite all the horrible things she witnessed and was forced to tolerate. I really hated Sullivain for most of the book but at the end I appreciated how well she was written. 

I cannot wait to get my hands on the next book! 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Torture

Minor: War

triple_m's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

Don’t judge this book by its cover!

A really solid debut. There’s a lot of interesting and unique aspects of this book that differentiate it from other romantasy novels. 

Death as a character is so, so interesting, and even though he (it?) is certainly not an ally, I don’t really consider him the antagonist of this story. I think the crown causes much more strife for our protagonist. 

I’m not a fan of Sullivan and found Hellevir’s soft spot for her very frustrating, but ultimately they have a chance to win me over as a couple in the next book. I was glad to see Hellevir take the reins at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, and Murder

ezwolf's review against another edition

Sometimes I don’t realize how much I’m forcing myself to keep reading something until I start another book that immediately grabs and maintains my attention. I keep coming back to this and reading small percentages but it just isn’t holding my attention. Which is disappointing considering this is sapphic fantasy featuring a necromancer. Again, one I will maybe come back to some day, but who knows. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Death of parent

loafhart's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

The cover is really ugly for such a great book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

If you have mommy issues. Beware.

basementofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture, and Abandonment