Reviews tagging 'War'

The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez

32 reviews

michaelion's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? No

3.75

I didn't like the ending. It’s like the season of a show ended in the middle of an episode instead of at the end, but its okay bc we know it got greenlit for more seasons. I had an adequate amount of fun.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Slavery, Blood, and War

the_bookish_babee's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Abandonment, War, and Classism

Minor: Death, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

nrchambers's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

3.75

This didn't wow me but it did interest me and tug on some of my emotions. I'll be reading the next book for sure as most of my enjoyment from this first installment came from things to come (ie the setting up of character relationships, subplots, etc)  

It was a little rough specifically because of the in-world hatred of 'others' (reading this when multiple genocides are ongoing in Gaza, Sudan, Congo, etc). So I'm hoping a lot of the characters do some personal growth in book 2. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Minor: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, and Trafficking

lisamsalgado's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Vomit, and War

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Trafficking

erikagibson126's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Violence, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

mandareads222's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Excrement, and Vomit

ladymickbeth's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

Plot: 4.5/5
World building: 4/5
Characters: 4.5/5
Writing: 3.75/5 
Grammar/editing: 2/5

In general, I enjoyed this book and the unique premise. Unfortunately, I don’t think this book was edited at all. There was some expositional elements repeated when they didn’t need to be, and there were a ridiculous amount of typos and missing or incorrect punctuation marks. There were also quite a few run-on sentences. The obvious lack of editing took me out of the story often.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Bullying, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

avacadosocks's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Slavery, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual assault, Excrement, and War

ourxstorybegins's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense 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

4.5

Okay okay so the only reason that this didn’t get 5 stars from me is because it had a really slow start and was hard to get into. But once I was in, I was IN. This is book one in a series about a girl who was chosen to be the royal Name-Bearer but when it’s time for her to do said bearing, things do not go well and she ends up having to run away, change her identity, etc. etc. for a variety of reasons. From there, this book really focuses on the friendships she makes (and after 10 years of living in basically seclusion where she isn’t allowed to HAVE an identity of any sort, that’s huge) and her starting to figure out who she is when she can’t be the Name Bearer. I finished this and IMMEDIATELY started book 2 because I simply must know more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Slavery, Trafficking, and Abandonment