Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez

21 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

hazeyfails's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

I don't know if this would be considered YA or not. It was ok? Way too many adjectives and too-long descriptions for rooms you'll never hear about again. Definitely needed more editing (did find a few misspellings etc). Appreciated the diversity well enough. Very abrupt end, as others have mentioned. Story is decent and has a couple, questionable fun moments. If you like the heavy descriptions and don't mind the rubber-banding pace it's ok as a fast day read.  For anyone who plays ffxiv, read the dialogue as if Wuk Lamat was saying everything. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

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

lpantoja0295's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual harassment

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

charliebites's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Trafficking

Minor: Sexual assault, Slavery, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

nick_w's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring relaxing fast-paced

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

2.0

Not very strong writing and some consistency issues. Characters aren’t well developed, and the plot moves too quickly. Entire battles or challenges are overcome in a few paragraphs with little detail or description, which doesn’t leave me aching to get to the next page. Also seems like a LOT of plot points are being set up for book 2. The vignette chapters are only a page or two long and don’t add to the story, they seem to be simulating mystery, but it falls flat. 

I do love the Latin culture, LGBTQ+ teasers, and where some of the plot lines seem to be going, and I’m looking forward to finishing the series and seeing the resolution. Just a bit below my reading level and the amount of detail I prefer in a book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail