Reviews tagging 'Grief'

A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab

6 reviews

ka_ke's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.0

Its okay, but it didn’t grab my attention as some of the other books I’ve read this year. Will I read the rest of the series? Yes. Is it going to become a favourite? I doubt it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Violence, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, Body horror, Grief, and Torture

Moderate: Death

Minor: Slavery and Fire/Fire injury

theslowreadernumber5's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Murder, Slavery, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Torture, War, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Abandonment, Blood, Drug use, and Kidnapping

oliverreeds's review

adventurous dark tense medium-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

4.0

p good. the character work is incredible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Murder, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, and Torture

triin_s's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Injury/injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Grief, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

alyssadavis's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

"You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Violence

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Grief, and Injury/injury detail

podanotherjessi's review

adventurous dark lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

Let me start by saying this book is good. Really good even. It's definitely enjoyable. But I just don't love it, and I don't really know why.
The characters are simple, but they still have motivations that make sense, and they're deep enough to be believable. The plot had a habit of introducing information in weird ways - either just in time to be useful or just after the reader was surprised by something. Sometimes, an explanation in the text (that was very tell-y) would leave out a detail and then only provide it later after a twist happened that the reader might have expected if we'd had that info. That kind of thing.
But it's fun and quick and light if that's what you're looking for in a book. I just was expecting something more after all of the hype.

Characters - 7
Plot - 8
Setting - 9
General appeal - 7
Writing style - 7
Originality - 9
Ending - 6

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Grief and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape