Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

77 reviews

elizas's review against another edition

challenging inspiring mysterious slow-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Death

max_pink's review against another edition

4.0

The Sadboy Emperor Chronicles was a solid 400-page fantasy with clearly in-depth worldbuilding, 40 thousand characters, political shenanigans out the wazoo, and very little central stakes. It's really about this guy navigating being thrust into power and growing marginally less depressed. It's fine, though I'm a bit baffled by those who love it. 

Good narration by Kyle McCarley.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

mysterious sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Classism

meadowlarks's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Death of parent

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Violence and Colonisation

lirio_dendron's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Infertility, Miscarriage, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Murder

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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

5.0

Obsessed does not begin to describe it. I will be reading everything Katherine Addison has ever written or ever will write. Csevet supremacy forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

seforaflorian's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring relaxing 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

haskinsc's review against another edition

challenging lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Death of parent

blewballoon's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

My boyfriend read this book to me at night to help me fall asleep, and it's great for that. If you need an example of a fantasy book with excessively convoluted names, this is the book for you. If want a painfully slow and dry story with a vague sense of political intrigue but nothing too intriguing, this book is an excellent choice. How much you enjoy this book will depend on how much you enjoy the main character. I personally thought he was.. fine? Not a bad person, but not an exceptional one either in the grand scheme of things. I was much more interested in his close staff, such as his personal assistant who arguably did the most, his rotating bodyguards, and even his royal dressers who picked out his clothes. (Notice how I'm avoiding using anyone's name because I have absolutely no hope of trying to spell them.) I think this book would have been vastly improved by having more perspectives, like the staff members I mentioned, and a female character perspective would have been great as well. The emperor arguably does the bare minimum in terms of treating women decently, at least from a modern viewpoint. I am glad this is a book where

"Good" people have good things happen to them and "bad" people don't get away with doing a lot of bad stuff for very long.

If this were a more pessimistic book, I think the snail's pace and difficult to grasp world-building would have been even harder to wade through. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Racism

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

The names of the elves and goblins were very complicated to learn, and there was a lot of characters, people to know, political entities, religious figures etc. 

While it is written very well line by line, I think it was a bit too dry for my tastes. I don’t think I could make it through more of the book, because I’d be lost. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia