Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Fate of Stars by S.D. Simper

4 reviews

bisexualwentworth's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.75

Was this book good? Not necessarily. Did I enjoy it a lot? Yes. It's very tropey. Very sapphic dark romance the little mermaid. 

Things I loved:

• Bisexual mermaid!
• Stone butch lesbian princess!
• Godpunk!
• The narrative definitely has empathy and respect for sex workers.

Things I didn't like:

• A lot of the prose.
• The names were just kind of challenging for me. Typical of this sort of fantasy, but challenging.
• Unquestioned authority of royalty.
• Excessive mentions of and threats of sexual violence/rape to prove that the world is dark. This could have been used in tandem with other types of oppressive violence much more effectively than this book did.

Overall, would recommend if the description sounds good to you. It is what it says it's going to be, and I always appreciate that in a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Alcohol

wildatheart1339's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

the_lesbrarian's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

This book was so fun! Morally gray butch lesbian princess x mermaid love story. 
This is a very romance-heavy romantasy. Due to my personal reading preferences, I wish it was longer and more time had been given to development of the political and magic systems. 
There are some big skips in logic, plot holes, and a very simple solution to the big problem that the book ends on,

i am really not understanding why she couldn’t just live on land and then meet with her mother/undersea friends  by having them swim to the cove and then hanging out with them from the land like she discussed doing with the princess but with talora underwater. this reads like the fantasy equivalent of the romance third act miscommunication to breakup trope

so don’t pick this one up if you’re someone who can’t look past that. 
That being said, I really enjoyed this book and will be reading the next one. This is a wild ride and a sweet romance in a fantasy setting turn your brain off & enjoy 

also how insane it it that she was able to sneak out of the castle by wearing the in-world equivalent of those spirit halloween sexy nun outfits. hysterical and fantastic

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Trafficking

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

destinyridc's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Death, Homophobia, Incest, Rape, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol