Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

8 reviews

dcnarvaez's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

An amazing conclusion, Laini Taylor had me sweating buckets with her amazing, almost-cinematic writing style. A perfect conclusion for a perfect trilogy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Minor: Genocide and Slavery

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

I loved this book and was suprised by the revelation of a certain characters what seemed to be demisexuality, after how we’d seen them portrayed previously it was somewhat surprising but I’m so happy that they got their own form of happy ending.  

I love the characters and this series with my heart, unfortunately though something just felt unfinished which is why it didn’t get 5 stars. I feel we could’ve had another book exploring what we found out in those last 100 pages with the longer term outcomes of everyone finalised.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, War, and Injury/Injury detail

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Religious bigotry, and Classism

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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, Grief, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture

epsyphus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Strong finish for the series; the mixing of the fantasy and the real world was well done I thought. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, and War

strange's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

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

2.75

I can’t say I disliked this book overall, but I found it to be a bit of a disappointing conclusion 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Colonisation

Minor: Torture and Grief

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.75

2023: 3.75

Whelp, my below review is so sweet and innocent 😅 I felt that the introduction of lore and world building came too late in a series and should have been spread out more throughout the novel, even if just odd tidbits that would make sense at the end of the series. I would love to see more of this world/the strange the dreamer world because I do think it's an interesting idea and Taylor is a good writer. 

2017: 5 stars
Oh that was so precious 😍😭 such a perfect perfect ending holy moly, my babies were together and Ertz is healing and it's perfect 
It took me forever to get through the first half of the book just because I didn't want the story to end 😂 I really enjoyed the plot and all the mini plots in it 
The story didn't end like a happily ever after, but a honest way of post war and rebuilding a world 
As always, the writing style was perfect 
This definitely one of my favourite series now ♥️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bringmybooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Original Read: 2015, Re-Read: July 2023
Original Rating 4 ★ , Re-Read Rating 5 ★

✨ 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 ✨ B̷O̷R̷R̷O̷W̷ B̷Y̷P̷A̷S̷S̷

OKAY BUT COME ON HOW IS THIS SO GOOD

(I have minor squabbles re: the ending because I feel like it left a couple of things open ended and I mean it’s fine for them to be open ended because you basically know what’s happening but also I wanted more?? And yeah I know the book was already 600+ pages but I would have read 100 more and that’s the truth) 

ALSO LIRAZ’S CHARACTER ARC IS UNPARALLED GENIUS 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and War

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Religious bigotry