Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

9 reviews

daryn's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and War

daniofthewood's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

This was my favorite book as a child. I wanted to reread it as an adult to see if it still had the magic I remembered. It absolutely did! Such a beautiful story. Thank you for uplifting and empowering shy girls to experience adventures of their own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Misogyny

the_reading_fairy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.25

I really liked this book. One great thing about it is that at the beginning, the book takes time to set up the relationship between Addie and Meryl before the adventure begins. It gets the readers to care about Meryl and feel like they know her even though she isn't in most of the book.

I like how it gets me to want the same thing as the main character. In lots of books, when I get near the ending, I hope for it to be exciting, but in this book, I only wished for

Meryl to be cured.

The only part I didn't like was at the very end when

Addie and Rhys get married. They have known each other for only a few weeks and Addie is TWELVE and Rhys is about SEVENTEEN in human years.

 

But other than that, it is a really good book, and I enjoyed reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail

libbyhb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is so special and close to my heart. I first read this when I was 9, and I've reread it often since then. I love the world of this book, with the Gray Death and fairies and the Drualt tale. The writing is so beautiful but simple, and feels like an old fairy tale in the way the story is told and the symbolism and lessons. Gail Carson Levine is good at making characters both relatable and otherworldly, and at telling these kinds of stories. I love Addie and Meryl's relationship, and Addie's stubbornness overcoming her fears because of her love for Meryl. I also love that there's relatively few characters in this - it makes the sisters and Rhys and Vollys stand out so much more. I just love this story so much!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Violence

cmbohn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death and Death of parent

archaicgambit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was my whole personality when I was 8. Incredible sister story. Gail Carson Levine's depictions of magic still slap. I still sob at the end.

Reread in 2022 and yeah still holds up. I still cry at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Terminal illness

unwise_samwise's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Death

bencaroline's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death

Moderate: Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent