Reviews tagging 'Death'

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

486 reviews

aliciawhatsthestory's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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: Murder, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual violence

marvelous_mint's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-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

Starting almost right from where Six of Crows left off, Crooked Kingdom is an excellent continuation and an equally satisfying end to Kaz and his gang of misfits' story.

This book has the same fantastic character development, well thought-out story, wonderfully written scenes and dialogue, as well as the same great balance a darkness and humour of the first. 

A beautiful and slighty bittersweet ending.

In short, if you loved the first book, you won't be disappointed with this sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Slavery, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Torture

zoejjj's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

It is a good book but it took me so long to finish because I was EXHAUSTED by everything going wrong all the time!! On the opposite side of the ditch, it was almost frustrating to be reading and thinking everything’s crazy and wonky and then you find out it’s a plan Kaz pulled out of his butt and has been secretly planning for months in advance. There were good twists where I felt the fear and relief that Kaz actually knew what was going on but other times it was irritating. 

Everything coming together in the end was satisfying but maybe the actual plot would’ve been less frustrating if there had been less plot points written. Idk. Good book, I’d recommend it - just be prepared to be in the dark the whole time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Death

emeraldrose809's review

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Gore, War, and Death of parent

Minor: Slavery

zuth6462's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Death, War, Ableism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Classism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Torture, Slavery, Murder, and Kidnapping

mothmans_secretary's review

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Grief, Torture, Murder, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

littlewishling's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Bardugo, you broke my heart and I still love you for it. A fantastic book. I loved every minute of it (even the ones I hated). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

cinnamonshivvs's review

adventurous dark emotional 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, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual assault, Ableism, and Child abuse

sofiadanielle's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Frankly didn’t want the series to end. A beautiful wrap up to the duology, though I hope Bardugo does make a final installation for the Crows. 

A wonderful mix of action and comedy, of moments of tenderness despite all the plotting/fighting/etc going on. 

Bardugo writes in a way that feels like television. The character POVs end in what feels like episode cliff hangers, and as a reader, I can easily say some plot twists left me so surprised and always ready to read more. 

Loved this set of character so very dearly, and this series was so enjoyable to read :,) Off to reading the next Grisha-duology!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Death

prishaa_23's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death of parent