Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab

114 reviews

earth_to_dani's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

annie_tonk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Gorgeous writing. Reading this felt like watching a stopmotion video of  a puzzle assembling - a dark, magical, surreal, puzzle that left imprints in my mind. It was an imaginative masterpiece. I’m so enamored with this world that Schwab created and the dynamic characters that fill it. I love these characters! I want to be them and fight them and love them and scream at them! This world came to life for me. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Confinement, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

meheehee's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

hazeyfails's review against another edition

adventurous

3.0

Interesting concept. Good standalone but interested to see what the other books do since the universe is pretty interesting. Felt like it needed something more but still a nice read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, and Blood

kenzibir's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Really enjoying the series and this author 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

luxxltyd's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Grief

op3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

ashley_reya's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

While Delilah and Kell are certainly an odd couple pairing of lovable characters, I wasn’t particularly grabbed by this story. Halfway through, I still felt pretty “meh” about what was happening. While I did enjoy the back half of this story more, I don’t think I’ll be picking up the next in this series.

Overall, cute story, quick read, enjoyable characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence and Blood

nice_frogboy's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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

2.5

this book blends involuntary compulsion and sex in a way that was not disclosed, and which i personally do not care for. in the first half of the book, we have:

attempted rape on a protagonist, whippings of magically compelled S&M slaves, someone discloses being compelled to offer sexual favors in the course of an ordinary business transaction, involuntary boob grabs, one protagonist straps the other to a bed and summons a nude clone of them for implied sexual gratification, magical torture, magical chains, the other protagonist is in the bed again...

and so on. there are readers who will enjoy this, but me, i think i really need to know up front if the author intends to go all Anne Rice and such.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Slavery, and Blood

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

tazzyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail