Reviews tagging 'Grief'

A Crown This Cold and Heavy by Stacia Stark

6 reviews

noetical's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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? No

4.0

Cliffhangers suck!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

avacyn731's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and War

wickedgrumpy's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.25

I don’t know why I keep reading the books in this series.  They are getting more and more predictable which doesn’t leave much room for enjoyment or entertainment.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

chanlo1994's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Compared to the first two books, this one didn't get interesting until half way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape

maggies's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Unfortunately, I think the series is getting weaker. It started off strong but by the end of this third book, I'm just finding it a little tedious. The more I read of the series, I'm also struck by the odd decision to have multi-POV in first person because they honestly read to me like the same person...there's no real variation in the voice. I'll still read book #4, but I'm not particularly excited about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

moodgorning's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

another fantastic book in the series. i really can’t wait to finish this! prisca is such a loveable character and the relationships in this story are so sweet. we really see prisca embrace the queen in her and lorian grows as a character too. if you’ve read the other 2 books then you will definitely enjoy this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Grief