Reviews tagging 'Death'

One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

25 reviews

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

bibliorama's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.75

Enjoyment - 4
 Start - 4
 Characters - 3.5
 Atmosphere - 4
 Plot - 3
 Ending - 3.5
 Style - 4.5 

Overall - 3.8

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

maple_dove's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, Pregnancy, and War

Self-harm (graphic - Ritualistic purposes)

zaesbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Okay. Wow. 

You often hear about “the second book curse”. This phenomenon in which the second of a series is a bit of dud - something to get through to continue the story. This book is not. 

Since the world has already been built and as much time is not needed spent creating this island of Fennbirn, this book moves quickly. Lots of action, lots of character development. The beautiful writing and storytelling started in the first book continues here.

Kendare Blake does such a good job of keeping the reader on their toes; never quite sure what will happen. Which I deeply appreciate! Halfway through this series and (though I have hopes) I genuinely have no clue how it will end. And I am very excited to find out! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Grief

cardlikecredit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-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

4.75

This book was so intense! The pace definitely was better than the first one, especially the utter chaos at the end. I also appreciated the character map at the beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

socialpsysteph's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I struggled to get through the first book but I think that was more a reading slump's fault than the book itself so I wanted to pick up book 2 pretty quickly to see if it was worth continuing the series. It was definitely the reading slump's fault; I thoroughly enjoyed this book and have no idea where the story is going to go so I am excited to keep reading and trying to figure it out. Definitely, there are some twists in this one that I didn't see coming! I've already requested the third book from the library!

This book counts for the Magical Readathon Alchemy Side Quest 2023 to read a book with furniture on the cover.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

pagesbycaroline's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book definitely keeps you on your toes. There was so many ups and downs where you thought something was over and then it comes back later. A good sequel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

mia_luvsreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, and Vomit

thaliareads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Overall I enjoyed this book. Through probably an accidental pocket tap on my end while trying to pause the book, I'm pretty sure I skipped about an hour of the book towards the end, but didn't realize for a bit because I assumed it was just the jumpiness between perspectives. While I like the idea of the book and am glad I read it, I don't think I would have finished it if I were reading the physical book because I moved through it pretty slow. I do still plan to finish the series as I'm excited about the direction the story was moving at the end of this book. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

This book is very dark. Be prepared for self-poising with the intention of getting stronger, animal attacks, and general violence and torture. Injuries are described in high detail. There are some animals that do die, and one animal that becomes neglected during this book.