Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers

17 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

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

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

rosered_reading's review

emotional

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Grief

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

alyssaofkeefe's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

lyserature's review

dark emotional funny medium-paced

3.75

Sybella should've kissed girls. They mention she taught Annith and Ismae how to kiss??? THE MAID??? Tephanie and her deserved to have at least a moment... 
 

THE BABY??? NEVER IN MY FUCKING LIFE DID I EXPECT THAT (I did, there was foreshadowing but it still took me a few minutes) MY GOD.
THE WAY MEN DEFENDED D'ALBRET ??? There is his fucking daughter telling you how vile he is and was to his wives (SIX FUCKING WIVES DEAD, HELLO??) but nooooo he's a honorable man, he's good on the battle field. DIE. It's giving "But he was nice to me."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infertility