Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

247 reviews

sginnaw's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

laurenkgrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Trafficking, Slavery, War, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, and Death

jp1920's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Physical abuse, Torture, Addiction, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Child abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Slavery, and Death of parent

lelekochka'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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Murder, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Child abuse, Rape, Grief, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Addiction, Sexual content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Genocide, Torture, and Kidnapping

nils_0's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Death, Drug use, Addiction, Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Rape, and Slavery

vnfhcxksiw's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Grief, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Slavery, Abandonment, Violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

sarah_hutchins's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Addiction, Torture, Murder, Blood, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Pregnancy, Slavery, and Trafficking

inles_inlet'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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Slavery

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Rape

madisonstarkov'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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Trafficking, Gun violence, Addiction, Death, and Slavery

bri_14's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Not better than the first to me but it was still very good! It was cool seeing the band regroup and seek rightful vengeance. But I truly had no idea how Kaz would attempt to pull everything off. But like the rest of Ketterdam, he’s always 5 steps ahead.

Character highlights this go around are Kaz of course, Nina, Inej and Jesper. Nina is hilarious even when she’s overcoming pain. But Jesper is so stressful.

Spoiler

Between his father coming to town to him accidentally kissing Kuwei, I was like how many more hits can he manage??

But I think Kaz and Inej really brought it home in the final chapters. I didn’t expect Dirtyhands to be so intentional about Inej

Spoiler

from damaging the pleasure house to buying her boat to finding her parents.

Kaz may not be the *best* person in the world but he’s the best person for everyone in the Crows. 

I knew someone would get severely hurt but I didn’t expect THAT. But I think if it were someone else it would’ve hit a bit harder, like one of the girls or Jesper.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Slavery