Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi, Trungles

4 reviews

wildatheart1339's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Classism, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Vomit, and Pregnancy

rey_therese07's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Blood, Violence, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Animal death, and War

Minor: Death of parent

myarae's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Torture, Violence, and War

marioncromb's review

adventurous emotional fast-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

3.75

Disclaimer: I am asexual, and that definitely influenced how much i enjoyed this book

This was one of those unputdownable, breeze-through reads for me, very readable prose, characters i cared about, interesting historical setting, captivating romance. But i had one big problem with it.

For me, there were just far too many sex scenes.  This was maybe slightly balanced out for me by having a canon asexual side character, but only slightly, as they are a side character and their asexuality almost just seemed like more of a plot device not to get in the way of the main couple. And the sex scenes were very idealised and explicit, basically just porn:

Spoiler

idealised in that the only two bodily fluids that exist are saliva and jizz, no one has a gag reflex, magically no one ever needs to douche, the sex is always mindblowing etc etc

To give you an idea of how much. This is a book of four roughly equal quarters: 
First quarter: plot: a young knight tries to befriend his prisoner
Second quarter: basically just porn, just so much porn
Third quarter: mostly porn, some plot
Last quarter: thankfully back to mostly plot and only some porn

For a 500+ page book, its a lot of porn. But if you like that sort of thing definitely give it a go because i found it very enjoyable otherwise

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Outing, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment