Reviews tagging 'War'

Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers

13 reviews

dreadspawn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape and War

starr27's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death, Death, Incest, Infertility, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

orangeslices's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

I understand why people gave Sybella her flowers back in the day; she's a stronger character than Ismae in which that her prickly nature, pessimism, and trauma feel more fleshed out. Her background in speckled throughout the book rather than completely stated in the introductory chapter, and her motives and perspectives on life feel justified with each layer that is sloughed off. Her romance with The Beast is also very cute!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death

charlenedotexe's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed the first book, and decided to continue after learning it was a series. Let me tell you, IT WAS SOMETHING.

First sybella is kind of pitying herself because all she’s endured and done, and that people will hate her and that she doesn’t deserve kindness, but as soon as she finds a man she’s all happy and stuff? Like this book was written in 2013 so I get it, but like… she doesn’t need a man, but she says she’d like to be loved at least once in her life so I totally felt that. I also really liked that Beast wasn’t a handsome guy, and is pointed out clearly throughout the book, which definitely differentiates itself from the majority of romance/fiction. I also didn’t expect the mentions of incest in this book. Like I get it was back in the 15th century and during that it might of been more common bc of lack of morals but it was definitely unexpected. The author goes out of her way to make d’Albret VERY and I mean, VERY unlikable.

Over all, this book definitely shows that people can be loved for more than their looks and can come back from their horrible pasts. Everyone is flawed and deserving of love,

except for d’Albret. Fuck that guy.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and War

sleeping_roses's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Pedophilia and Torture

kristinvaldez's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

This one is so much darker and sadder than the first.  The things Sybella has dealt with her whole life and the journey she is on is a hard one.  

(Sexual abuse is talked about) 
(Suicidal thoughts) 

Beast is my favorite man.  In my mind he isn’t ugly at all because his heart and personality is just the best but the author has stated multiple times that he is ugly ugly lol 
Good thing Sybella prefers toads to princes 😍😩

I just really love this series. This pacing is alot faster. A lot more action. And a lot more drama! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

mmefish's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

I must have faith, but having faith is hard, so very much harder than despair.

Stayed up at night twice in a row, teared up a few times. 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Incest, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and War

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, and Torture

themoodreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Blood, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

katyfortner's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

How do I even start this review.. the heartbreak, the love story, the strong badass female role, and the crushing childhood trauma really took me on the biggest rollercoaster and I loved it. There were parts of this book that once I read it I had to put the book down and just mourn for the character or just digest what I read. I thought I wouldn’t like this book as much as the first since it tells a different character’s story but wow I was wrong. This one is definitely more heartbreaking than the last and I’m sure the next book will be even more so. There are major trigger warnings for this book.

There are major trigger warnings for this book like incest, rape, child death, suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, blood, murder, and more. It completely caught me by surprise that she had several cases of rape and incest that she had to endure. I don’t think I could have handled it at all. Also, the fact that she finally met someone that let her have an escape from her terrible reality and got pregnant and had a daughter just for her father to kill it in front of her. I was crying for her during that part. I could not even imagine the pain and suffering she had to go through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Infertility and Abortion

evarinyah's review

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: War and Injury/Injury detail