Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

159 reviews

esterslibrary's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Stalking, Abandonment, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Drug use, and Pandemic/Epidemic

talync_06'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: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Rape, Trafficking, and Religious bigotry

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

eguare's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

An incredible sequel to Six of Crows. I couldn't put this one down either. I was so engrossed with this duology that I didn't even realize that I'd been supposed to read the Shadow & Bone trilogy first until I'd already finished this book. I greatly appreciated being able to experience a wide-reaching and politically complex fantasy world that wasn't weighed down with constant gratuitous physical and sexual violence (looking at you, GRRM). I'm now fully immersed in the Grishaverse, and can only pray that Leigh Bardugo returns to it in the future. My only (and very slight) critique is that the sense of humor (not of the characters, but in the narration) occasionally seems rather juvenile, though perhaps that's an unfair criticism - it's published in the YA genre, after all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual violence and Trafficking

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

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

josiee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Rape, Blood, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Torture, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Stalking, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Trafficking, Violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Abandonment, Classism, Hate crime, Police brutality, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Death, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Classism, and Confinement

Moderate: Trafficking and Addiction

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, and Child death

shelbyrodger's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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: Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Grief, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Confinement, Death, Torture, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping