Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish

4 reviews

leedolee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was insanely good and I am still processing what I just read. It's been a long while since a book last blew my mind. 

Every single thing about this book is the definition of chef's kiss. The characters were all uniquely different and fun to read about. The overall plot kept me wanting to see what happened next. And just the sheer world building was absolutely beautiful. 

Consider me a fan and I am excited to jump into the next book immediately! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcohol

booksthatburn's review against another edition

It’s possible that this would turn out to be foreshadowing the discovery that this guy is bad, but I was offput by a conversation where the fantasy arms dealer CEO explains that it’s fine for him to pay for revolutions with funds gotten from selling arms to the colonizers, thus making more money as they buy more weapons to put down the revolutions he’s funding. Oh also he’s a tragic gay widower whose husband died for one of those revolutions. I’m uninterested in pinkwashing arms dealers who enable colonizers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape and Excrement

grimdark_dad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

definitelynotreading's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

 Things I Liked
-writing style - super engaging, fast read despite its length
-character relationships - they seemed realistic and honest, although I have a hard time calling this "found family" because I tend to think of that trope as a little more fluffy than the relationships between these characters, there were also some great character development moments
-worldbuilding - I want to know more about how this world works and I now have even more questions than ever

Things I Didn't Love
-everyone in this book is motivated by revenge, yes they have their individual reasons for wanting it, but they all want revenge
-this motivation makes for an extremely violent and bloody book - so many fight descriptions
-the found family aspect felt forced, they didn't feel like a family to me

The end does give me hope of some redemption of these characters, but I'm still not 100% sure that I'll keep reading the series. I do love Cyrus' decision at the end and I want to see where it leads him.
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Overall - 3.5⭐ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood