Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Lost Heir by Tui T. Sutherland

13 reviews

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

4.0

📖
This was a good book. I liked the POV change and it continued the overall plot well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Murder

stories's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Strong character growth, particularly interrogating the idea of leadership. 

Trust, family, protection, with a quiet nod to education and literature. 

Tsunami not having learnt her native language of Aquatic was a lovely touch. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Confinement, Death, Torture, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hedyharper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

okamihylia's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

The second entry into this series and for arc 1 also feels very average to me, it's the next book where I think the series really shines. But that's jumping ahead. I would say this book definitely starts out on the weaker side, but as it goes on it starts to improve. Special mention to the climax for being really well done (and as someone who loves a good murder mystery, which I did NOT expect from this series at all. Finding out 

Tsunami's older sister Orca, enchanted her statue to kill any future Seawing princess'

was something I did not see coming). The pacing feels a little weird in this one. We do get to explore the world of Pyrrhia more, which does work in the book's favor to me. Though some people may find this to be the "filler" book of the arc. I do like how Tsunami learns to move past her "It's my way, or the highway" attitude and impulsiveness in this book, I just wish her character development hadn't been erased in future books down the line. And this does play into my own rating of the book since Tsunami is my least favorite of the main group. Queen Coral is also frustrating to me as a character introduced here. For me, this was the weakest book of the first arc, but I don't dislike it at all.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

lolajh's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Bless these damn dragons 🤭 Such a perfect plot with perfect characters, even though a lot of the main dragonets weren’t in like half the book. But the sea!!!! Riptide!!!! Anemone!!!! So many beautiful introductions and developments, especially Tsunami, who was definitely overdue for some development (if you start reading and think she’s a brat, just keep reading, she gets so much better). I am thoroughly loving this series so far, so excited to read Glory’s book immediately 😫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and War

some_froggish_lad's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

Aah, just like I remember it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Classism

izzygyrl's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense fast-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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Misogyny, Racism, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Abandonment and Colonisation

kristyderp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

I really liked this one, maybe even more than the first book! It was a quick exciting read with plenty of twists and turns. I like the colorful descriptions of the setting and characters that the author uses, it makes it reading a sensory experience for me.
 There are a lot of characters, so keep them all straight in my mind, I made a list so I can keep track of who is who and what they look like.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ayhuz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Torture, and Kidnapping

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death