Reviews tagging 'Death'

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

22 reviews

obviouslyenia's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Murder

sylsbookcorner's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Y’all this book, there aren’t words to describe how good this book is! I knew from the opening line it was gonna be a roller coaster and I was NOT disappointed. It grabbed me by the throat and didn’t let go til the last page! The world building is glorious, the magic system is clever, and the characters are endlessly interesting and messy and I love them. I couldn’t put it down and I cannot WAIT to devour the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Panic attacks/disorders

vjlp22_reader's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Cannibalism, and Death

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Grief, Toxic friendship, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

cassie_ellie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Domestic abuse, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

iforgotilivedhere's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I’m really confused about this book. First of all, this should not of been marketed as adult. This is all the way YA. The characters didn’t feel really adult, they felt a lot like the typical YA characters that you see a lot in books like ToG and Shadow Hunters. 
Second, I had a really hard time with some of them. I kinda hated Angelica especially after what she did near the end with Eran. Taesia was interesting sometimes but her “snarky” comments kinda just blew it out of proportion sometimes. I could not stand her sometimes because of how dedicated Sim was to making Taesia be so badass. Sim tried so hard but it just didn’t work out sometimes. Sometimes Taesia really did feel like a interesting character! Nikolas, I love him. He deserves the world. Julian was also really good. At the beginning of the book I could care less about Risha but in the middle of the book I really started to actually find her generally interesting. She’s a good character! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Mental illness, Gore, Cursing, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Self harm, Murder, Abandonment, Violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Child death, Body horror, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Classism

i_write_on_occasion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

The book has interesting ideas, but a poor execution. The pacing is far too slow to keep interest and the characters are difficult to connect with

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, and Gore

Minor: Animal death, Child death, and Death of parent

memento_morri's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death

booksthatburn's review against another edition

This has a lot of story elements I’d normally like, but for some reason it’s just not working for me. I gave it a month and it started to feel like a chore.

I think I’m having trouble because of the size of the cast. It starts out with four main characters (with one more important one who isn’t a POV character) and then adds another one. They’re all in the same city and there’s a degree of redundancy as one character learns something and then one or two others figure it out separately. Whatever the reason, I’m not enjoying it and I’m stopping.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Racism, Blood, Xenophobia, Animal death, Kidnapping, Violence, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Child death, Self harm, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Alcohol

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse