Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

12 reviews

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a fantastic read and fantastic sequel. 

I will say, the end absolutely stressed me out and makes me worry that book 3 will not be as good because the last chapter of this one introduces some tropes that I don't love. My problems were that, I guess we're not really shown much what Apollo's true self is like up to this point, but having him do what he does to Evangeline is awful, and we're given no context as to how he has power to take memories? Aside from that and a few moments when all the ancient side stories were a bit hard to follow, this installment does not disappoint. There were multiple times that I audibly gasped or exclaimed while reading, both during plot twists and momentary Jacks x Evangeline moments. It is freshly surprising and worth every bit of your time. I'm not even sure how to give it the praise it deserves.

I give Rebecca Soler's performance 4.5/5⭐️. See book one's review for explanation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

strixy16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Didn’t expect to screech at this book as much as I did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Confinement, Death, and Abandonment

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad fast-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

4.75

This book made me laugh out loud several times. I even got emotional a few times. The  Ending tough, why did we have to do this trope? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

zoeelora's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kal517's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment

tays_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity and Abandonment

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.75

It was such a good book! Couple things I called, and somethings I was so wrong about! But even then, all the twists at the end, I did not see any of them coming! I probably should have, but damn, they just kept shocking me! And that damn cliffhanger! Where’s book 3 already?! Gahh!!! I need to continue this story already!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

esme_may's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture and Abandonment

frankieclc's review against another edition

4.5

the way I started this book like ugh it's gonna be sooo Young adult like the last one and then like 80 pages in I'm having an absolute whale of a time?????? what's in this book???? crack????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Abandonment