Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Alas de sangre by Rebecca Yarros

546 reviews

kdailyreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

reminiscences's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Gaslighting

peasandpancakes's review against another edition

adventurous 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

At first I was cringing a lot with all the overly sexual descriptions of men and I thought I was not going to enjoy it. But I must admit this turned into a huge guilty pleasure for me. Does it have a bunch of tropes? Yes. Is it super cliche? Yeah. But that does not take away from it being a super enjoyable story with a (yes I cannot believe I am going to say it) hot dude in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Grief, and Murder

tottles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

loses .25 for random out of character, poorly timed yearning!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

thisgirlreads_yay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

_shaybiebaybee's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

Throughout the entire book I wondered if Rebecca Yarros had ever even considered getting Fourth Wing professionally edited. There are about seven phrases repeated ad nauseam in this book, which I may have noticed only because I was listening to the audiobook, but I honestly think I would have noticed it in print too. This was very annoying. 
Repetitive things I did not enjoy:
- mentions of gold flecks
- "good point" "fair point" "s/he has a point" (you could make a dangerous drinking game with this one)
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Tairn is the mOsT pOwErFuL dRaGoN or any other reason why

no one really wants to mess with Violet
- mentions of brows doing things. 
- Mentions of "he gave me [such and such look that makes her horny] but noooo we aren't thinking about that right now"

This book is like if someone took Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, removed the good worldbuilding, added even more racist stereotypes, combined it with the Divergent style revolution (not the well thought out Hunger Games one), got the sex scenes written by a Gena Showalter wannabe, then threw it in the dryer on high to felt. Like yeah I guess it was entertaining but it was kind of like a train wreck. Like others have said, this feels ripped right from wattpad. 

I will be reading the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Vomit

wishlissa's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Grief, and Death of parent

grayscale08's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

sophie42's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit and Grief

randilion28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

l honestly need a few days to process... Took me forever to finally start reading it and I could NOT put it down.... I was enamored by ALL of it. It has everything you could want in a book ... Love, adventure, DRAGONS. I will update my review as soon as I've had time to process lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail