Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

The Wicked King, by Holly Black

55 reviews

joensign's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Alcohol, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death and Vomit

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Murder, War, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Bullying, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Vomit, Torture, Classism, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

claire_fitzgibbon13's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I loved the romance between Cardan and Jude, but i’m so sad about the ending. But i can imagine how it will set up the next book.  

Spoiler

Everything  was so cute and I was so happy when they got married and then it just all went to shit

. Also I hate locke.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, War, Injury/injury detail, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

charmd49's review

adventurous mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Overall I enjoyed the book,
The plot carried well from the first and I intent to read the final book of the series. 
However, I felt there was much to be desired in explaining character motives (hopefully this will all come to light in the final book). I hope to be able to empathise with the characters and feel that the relationships they are building are justifiable. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/injury detail and Vomit

maello's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is the best book of the series (IMO). It's full of the faerie stuff of making sure your words are smart, of promises and of schemes. It is dramatic, it is tense, it is adventurous. There is so much unfolding. The pace is fast, but I wouldn't say it is rushed. It is fast because we have to always be on our toes, trying to be one step ahead as Jude is. Things thrown her way ruin her plans, and she has to adapt-- quickly-- before things get horrible. Overall this is my favorite, and I'm glad I stuck with this series despite my initial issues with the first book. In this book you learn much more of the main crew. Their thoughts, their reasoning, etc.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Torture, and Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

raypaws's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/injury detail, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Murder

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Vomit and Sexual content

lilyane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Animal cruelty, Murder, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Injury/injury detail, Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Blood

Moderate: War

Minor: Vomit

tanvi45's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Torture

maple_dove's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Addiction, and Death of parent

Parental neglect (moderate)

koistyfishy's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

Original Read: 5⭐️
Reread: 4⭐️

Whilst I still enjoyed this the second time through and I did like the character development that took place in this book, I didn’t find myself as obsessed with this book as I love the first one.

There is something about HB’s writing that almost annoys me with her plot layout. She tends to keep a lot of it secret from the reader even though you are in Jude’s head you don’t know what she is always thinking or scheming so it could be the “shock” factor of letting the scheme play out… and sometimes I just wanna know what is going through her head before she schemes to see how her mind works forming the plans, but instead you are just shown the result of the plan which gets annoying… especially since she herself seems irritated when the same thing happens to her in the plot not knowing other characters plans…

Still I did enjoy this reread and am jumping into the final book! I need my final fix of Jude and Cardan

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Minor: Vomit