Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Schattenkämpfer by Mark Lawrence

7 reviews

unabridged_adventures's review against another edition

• 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

5.0

I love the way female friendships are shown in this book as well as the representation of religion and faith!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War, Death, and Torture

shadereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Child death and Grief

strange's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Torture, War, Violence, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, and Sexual content

grets_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

Minor: Cancer

kylieqrada'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The perfect conclusion to an excellent series. I am so glad I finally picked up Book of the Ancestor up, and it really was everything I hoped it would be. Although this concluding installment broke me in pretty much every way, it also wrapped up in the only acceptable way and I am LIVING.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

azaliz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The ending is a bit less enthralling than the rest of the story, it's abit of a bummer; but it's still a very nice read, still a lot of action and badassery, flash-backs and flash-forwards that add to the suspense.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Genocide, Grief, and Terminal illness

Minor: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Style/writing: 3.5 stars
Themes: 4 stars
Characters: 5 stars
Plot: 4 stars
Worldbuilding: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture