Reviews tagging 'Death'

In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman

5 reviews

margaret_k30's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful slow-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: Abandonment, War, Slavery, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Child death, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, and Genocide

Minor: Abortion, Gaslighting, Rape, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

latida94's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful slow-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

4.0

Poor fucking Tess. Every step she took to try to do good kept going so poorly. But she never stopped trying to be better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Death, Racism, Chronic illness, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Child death

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, Gaslighting, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Grief, Racism, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Classism, Animal death, Death, and Gore

madamenovelist's review

adventurous challenging dark slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

elle_dee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Ableism, Abortion, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Vomit, War, Child abuse, Dementia, Grief, Hate crime, and Kidnapping

I tagged “racial slurs” because while there are NO REAL WORLD slurs used, there are several in-universe slurs used by the antagonists (several characters call out this behavior as harmful).