Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Os Lobos Dourados by Roshani Chokshi, Marcia Blasques

19 reviews

gisblanketfort's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Antisemitism, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

karambit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Torture, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Gore, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Death of parent

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

 I don't know how to rate this. Because there were things about the book I absolutely loved. And then there were things I absolutely hated.

What shines the most are the characters. They were basically what kept me reading. The story lives with these characters, their friendship is just so special and wholesome. So, I hated what happened at the end because this is just cheap writing.

And as much as I loved the setting and atmosphere of the story and the adventure of it, the writing felt very rushed and convenient most of the time. There was A LOT of world building crammed into a very small book. I could hardly keep up with every new description and magical object or power. When nothing else was going on, it was easy to imagine the magic and the locations, for example the amazing hotel. But as soon as there was action involved, I couldn't picture anything at all. Which is a shame because I feel these places were really cool. But I liked that riddles were included into the book, even though they were either too easy or too vague. And for someone who is interested in a lot of cultures and myths and history, there were a lot of references too (Maybe a little too many even...).

I'm not particularly interested in the plot anymore, but I will probably continue the series for the characters, their diversity and the discussions about colonialism and theft of art/cultural artifacts from other cultures. It's really cool that this is part of a YA series these days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Ableism, Torture, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

discworldwitch'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? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Cultural appropriation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Racism, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Mental illness, Torture, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Alcohol

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

2023: 4.25. unfortunately bringing down the rating :( while I still love the premise of the world, having a rag tag team of characters perform a hiest, and it being a historical fantasy that talks about racism/colonisation, I felt that the book itself wasn't as tight in execution. The pacing was choppy, some of the action scenes were long and confusing to read + we would get random descriptive paragraphs that were a bit excessive, and the arc of some of the characters is a bit confusing at times, just to name a few things. The final chapter still is a great plot twist and I'm still keen for the next book, it's just that the last 100 pages weren't as gold as the first 200.  

2021: 5 stars  I was hooked by page 50, I am OBSESSED with this book, this world, these characters omg. this has everything: cool magic system, fantastic historical element, a heist, a group of cool characters, omg I'm in love. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

pockymonster_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Antisemitism

maryjames's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Cultural appropriation, and Injury/Injury detail