Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

A Tune to Make Them Follow by T.A. Lawrence

5 reviews

caitlinkm's review

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Abandonment, Child death, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Bullying, Grief, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Classism, Emotional abuse, and Gore

popquizliz's review

adventurous dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

booksalacarte's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad 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? No

3.25

A Tune for Them to Follow- 3.25⭐️ 2🌶️

She’s a wanted criminal, but he doesn’t have to know that.

Piper’s job is simple.

Take the children.

Don’t get caught.

The rules she binds on herself; however… Well, they’re a tad more complicated.

Kidnapped as a child for her connection with the Old Magic—the one that grants her the ability to enchant others with her music—Piper knows good and well the rules of the Coup, the underground organization intent on bringing down the fae regime. As the Coup’s first “recruiter,” she’s supposed to take the strong, the good-boned, the clever, the healthy.

Except Piper doesn’t always do what she’s supposed to.

Instead, she makes a few rules of her own.

Like how she only takes the children who need taking—the children who suffer harm and neglect in their current homes, the ones who come with her willingly.

The children for whom a life bound in service to the Coup would be a mercy.

But when a deadly oversight leaves Piper injured, stranded in the forest, and unable to protect the no-nonsense child to whom she’s promised a better life, she’s left with no other choice. She strikes a bargain with a handsome archer whose aim is almost as deadly as his past.

Oh, but there’s another rule too.

Don’t fall in love.

Especially not with a human who has no idea who Piper really is.

This second installment in The Severed Realms series transports the reader across Alondria to Avelea, a kingdom full of wicked forest faeries, underground rebellions, and a king with a secret of his own.

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✨My Opinion✨

A clean young adult fantasy retelling of the Pied Piper.

In this book the magic system was revealed a little more, and the Old Magic had a name… so I’ll count it as a character, I guess? 

Piper is an abused child who steals away abused children. You have to respect that.

Gigi is the magic living within Piper since birth. I enjoyed her quiet addition to the story.

This romance was far more believable and natural. Marcus was a fine hero, vulnerable, grouchy. But I didn’t understand his cloak? Where did it come from? What did it do? How did it work?!

The real star of this book is Amnity! She was fiesty. She was dating! She was cunning! And most of all she had a fighting spirit! I was rooting for her every time she was on page! 

I started reading because I wanted to know if the bad guy from book 1 is revealed.

I kept reading for Amnity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence

emohan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

Great book. I was disappointed to find the second book didn’t follow the same characters as the first book. I loved Piper, Amnity, and Marcus together and their story. The story moved along well despite a lot of the action bone packed in the last hundred pages; sometimes I feel the story can get lost.

I really am not thrilled with how much was left unanswered in the book knowing the next book in the series will, just like this one, follow different characters. What’s the kings secret? Why does Marcuses sister adore him so? Why is Lydia tracking down Piper? How did Elias get in contact with Lydia? What the heck was Elias’s warning about?  There’s just too much unanswered. In this book, and the previous book. I felt like referencing to the first book happened A LOT and was not necessary. I understand we’re in the same world. I see the map on the first page…. </spoilers> In hopes the author answers some questions in the next book, this book gets 4 stars. If we don’t get answers, I think I will have to lower my rating. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Emotional abuse

Minor: Trafficking, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, and Child abuse

smkelly1997's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

Graphic: Abandonment, Classism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking