Reviews tagging 'Death'

Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis

51 reviews

trinidad_gondi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Addiction and Suicide

maddihiggs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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: Death, Self harm, Xenophobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Violence and Islamophobia

ling_prof's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Forced institutionalization

cfell'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gore, Suicide, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement and Blood

softanimal's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

zarap's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Alcoholism

frahhn's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Very torn—I liked the introduction of a second POV because Cora can grate on me, sort of feel like she is Bella Swan-esque. After two books I thought I would have a better sense of who this character is, but in book two she’s been through so much trauma that dealing with that is the focus rather than further exploring the character and encouraging her growth. The character herself expresses a total inability to know herself so maybe it’s fully intentional and I just don’t like it! That said, I think this was the better ending between the two books, and I’m really hoping the next book will have major growth for Cora and Ampersand (Jude), or if not, that the tragedy of being too alien to each other is played out meaningfully. Going back to the dual POV, I was pretty torn about the relationship that develops—I liked Kaveh a TON and then felt more meh once romance and sex was involved, but not enough to be unmoved by the really devastating development towards the end of the book. I really loved the introduction of Nic and his and Kaveh’s relationship throughout the text. I think Nic is my favorite character in the series yet, and I’m really curious to see how addiction will be handled in the third book, with Kaveh’s words and lessons in mind. Nit picky stuff, I need the word existential to stop being in the text (lol sorry! I feel the same about GRRM’s use of jape) and also sometimes the application of modern terms and modern discourse are jarring to me—I know the alt-right has existed forever with journalists and more covering them forever but I would have appreciated slightly different terms/adjacent terms for some of the contemporary phenomena happening in an alternative, earlier time that obviously serves as a comment on ours—Takes me out of the narrative a little, and I even often agree with the politics. I think it would then work a little better for the purposes of an engaging science fiction novel in addition to being contemporary political commentary—which of course informs any book fiction or not—but I think working well as both the novel and the commentary is what makes a classic? Anyway, hoping the next book goes full “I <3 My Monster Boyfriend” per a piece of LE merch :) and that Cora’s dad gets some supervillain-esque send-off akin to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Islamophobia

htsrokin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Toxic relationship

lastcomment314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, and Murder