Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

30 reviews

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Animal death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Torture, Genocide, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, and Trafficking

little_rainbow's review against another edition

adventurous slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Xenophobia, Violence, and War

Moderate: Torture, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, and Religious bigotry

marzreadz2's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, and Death

Minor: War, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Torture

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Slavery, Rape, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Grief, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

kayelina's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful relaxing medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Blood, Sexual content, Torture, Murder, and Violence

le3713's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

Unevenly paced story that nevertheless pulled me into an imaginative and richly described world. The last section left me needing more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Murder

Moderate: Torture and Slavery

donatio's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

So... overall I liked the book.
I liked the characters as well as the world-building but some things didn't sit right with me. 

I'm a big animal friend and I'm intrigued by the concept of opposites, how something cannot exist without an opposite, but the depiction here failed sometimes. The fact that the angels basically colonised the world of the chimaera often fades into the background and the chimaera are still often described as the villain(monsters) because the angels make no appearance except for Akiva's "rightness" and so on; the balance it was probably supposed to be... Is just not there. Even though it is said that the chimaera are intelligent and feeling beings this behavior isn't shown, there is no tender love in Eretz in the chimaera capital described. That makes them seem cruel even though the angels are the "real" enemies. 
Furthermore I had a problem with some comments made in the book I can't recall specifically now and the fact that everyone seems to be beautiful (ly thin) in some way upsets me.

Still the story managed to draw me in, to care about the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, War, Classism, Animal death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, and Torture

timedothwasteme's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, War, and Slavery

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Sexual content

auraflores's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

There is something about the writing of the book that kept me really enagaged. However, there was something I felt was missing after having finished the book. I think for the most part, it's a great book, but I don't know if I left feeling like I needed to pick up the next book in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Slavery and Torture

_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