Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Anastasia, by Sophie Lark

3 reviews

midnight_rose_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Anastasia is a historical fantasy romance standalone from Sophie Lark, and her first ever fantasy book. It was a well researched emotional and harrowing read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Suicide, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Torture, War, Death, Cursing, Violence, Blood, Injury/injury detail, and Murder

esilanna's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

I’m not too big of a fantasy fan but am I a huge Sophie Lark fan, so I was nervous going into this book. However, Sophie made the difficult task of blending history, politics, magic, and romance not just well enough to be able to understand what was going on in the book, but intricately detailed to the point I felt every emotion the characters were feeling, not just the main ones. Sophie truly brought me into this fantasy world, shattered my heart multiple times and put it back together every time after and I would do it all over again in a heart beat. I’ll never listen to Once Upon a December the same again😭🥹❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Self harm, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Murder, Animal death, Chronic illness, War, Suicide, Injury/injury detail, and Death

maregred's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Animal death, Injury/injury detail, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, War, Sexual content, Alcohol, Child death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexism, Gun violence, Chronic illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Sexual assault