Reviews tagging 'Injury/injury detail'

Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor

5 reviews

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Suicide, Blood, Animal death, Torture, Injury/injury detail, and Slavery

Moderate: Body shaming, Genocide, Bullying, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Sexual content

martamae77'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail and Death

Moderate: Torture and War

Minor: Trafficking

_tamara_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/injury detail, Classism, Colonisation, War, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, and Genocide

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Blood, Torture, Toxic relationship, Rape, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, and Murder

elizabethamarx's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Injury/injury detail

charliebriggs96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5

This book was so close to a 4⭐️ that I could taste it, but as usual I had some issues with it. But first, the positives. What a way to start a series! For one thing, it’s a great opener of a book. The first in a trilogy, it’s sometimes hard to grasp the readers attention like this book did. The characters, for the most part are cleverly crafted, full bodied and memorable. Some did lack in the background, or didn’t age well in terms of readability in the last 10 years since it’s initial release. Which did knock a little half point off of the total score, blame the mc’s friend, not me. However, I immensely enjoyed Karou, she was funny, kind, intelligent although sometimes naive. She and Brimstone and the other Chimaera held this book in place, which made the plot twist all more bittersweet. The reason why this book wasn’t a 4⭐️ was: pacing, the pacing started off strong, then went EVERYWHERE nearing the middle and end. Some of the characters, like I mentioned, haven’t aged well. And I am NOT a fan of ‘insta-love’. Even with the plot twist, it’s still instalove. And I hate it

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Torture, and War