Reviews tagging 'Death'

Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

33 reviews

abby_can_read's review against another edition

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

4.0

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I thought this was a good book. I had a good time reading it. I liked the characters, Koffi and Ekon. I thought the pacing was off at times. I like the worldbuilding. I'm excited to see what happens in the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

emilysreadingbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

renee_fae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

Characters are fun, the bits of African mythology was great, and the story was all round an interesting read💕

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

anjasfairylights's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

What a debut novel! Love the Pan-African, mythology-inspired fantasy. I can‘t speak for accuracy or representation, but as a white European person I really enjoyed diving into this book and being led by the author and her detailed, enthralling descriptions of characters and storylines. I look forward to reading the second volume, the plot twist at the end was well put and definitely does its job.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

Great world-building, a bit on the predictable side with a cliffhanger ending. Gripping enough that I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel eventually. It's pretty enjoyable, though not mind-blowing IMO, and the African lore was intriguing and great to read. If there are YA tropes that grate your nerves like miscommunication, you might cringe through some parts like I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Animal cruelty

kat_rowlen's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

An easy fantasy read with Alice in Wonderland vibes! The author created a captivating world and, a story that kept the pages turning. I can’t wait to read the sequel 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

meghansarmiento97's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

nutmegandpumpkin's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

~ Overview ~
Plot: 2/5
Characters: 3/5
Dialogue: 3/5

Writing style: 4/5

Worldbuilding: 5/5
Setting: 5/5

Personal Enjoyment: 3/5
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I thought this book was enjoyable but it did take me forever to get through. 

What I Didn’t Like:
• In my opinion it took a bit too long for the characters to get into the Greater Jungle (which seems to be the main plot point in the synopsis).
• There were a lot of names being dropped in the very beginning which made it a bit hard for me to keep track of
• I think the author’s clutch phrase is “Character A started to [blank] then thought better of it” (there were so many times that phrase was used that it became distracting)
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I don’t love how Koffi so easily accepts and finds out that she has magic now. I felt it should’ve been more drawn out / not so quick

• Not a fan of when conflict could be solved if characters JUST COMMUNICATED 
• A bit confused by the end:

Is Adiah dead or not? And in the last chapter there were times when the author wrote “by the time THEY reached the temple’s back door” when I think it’s supposed to be just Ekon? And then later he says to the old woman “Why did you help US?” Like am I missing something? Are these typos?

What I Liked:
• The first few chapters definitely intrigued me and although it took me quite a bit to get all the way through, I was interested in finding out what was going to happen next 
• The writing was both easy to read and has some beautiful lines
• The world building felt well-developed and thought out (probably the highlight of the book for me)
• OCD rep

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Alcohol

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty and Murder