Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

7 reviews

renardthefox's review against another edition

dark emotional funny relaxing medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

jess_justmaybeperfect's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Widow and widower 

Class differences 

Dislike to lovers 

Lord and his secretary 

Hidden identity 

Sex club 

Progressive FMC who cares for (and becomes friends with) sex workers 

Really dumb villains who absolutely get what’s coming to them 

So hot 

Possessive and stuck up MMC who I would absolutely run from in real life but gets absolutely destroyed by his FMC 

A duel! 

 

A reread and I understood Edward better this time around.* Plus I liked Anna even more somehow. 

 

I love Hoyt. 

 

Once again Quirk nails the narration. 

 

 

*recognizing he is a fictitious person and nothing about him has changed since the first time I read it 

 

 

 

 

**ugh because Anna is

“barren”

until Edward. 🙄 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

haley49's review against another edition

4.25

Slow burn but so good after it got going!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

distilledreads's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

There was an Elizabeth Hoyt novella included at the end of a recent historical romance I read, which intrigued me enough to check out Hoyt’s bibliography. When I saw she had written a beauty and the beast retelling, with the main female character being named Anna Wren, I had to pick it up. The consent in The Raven Prince is a bit dubious with hidden identities, but I did enjoy the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Classism

jess_justmaybeperfect's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Widow and widower 

Class differences 

Dislike to lovers 

Lord and his secretary 

Hidden identity 

Sex club 

Progressive FMC who cares for (and becomes friends with) sex workers 

Really dumb villains who absolutely get what’s coming to them 

So hot 

Possessive and stuck up MMC who I would absolutely run from in real life but gets absolutely destroyed by his FMC 

A duel! 

 

 

 

 

**ugh because Anna is

“barren”

until Edward. 🙄 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

emfass's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

yuna's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

Liked this a lot except for the last 1/4. The ending was too rushed, didn't like how Anna seemed to regress as a character with agency (she just lets Edward steamroll her & doesn't stand up for herself at all where earlier she does), & some of the conflict points felt like they weren't fleshed out enough earlier to feel meaningful at the end.

Felicity & Chilton felt kind of meaningless as villains. There was plenty of internal & external conflict for the protags already, so these two ended up feeling like filler & not threatening.

Did like the positive without veering too hard into naive/idealistic attitudes toward sex work & workers. Wish Pearl and Coral had stuck around longer, but a lot of the side characters kind of fall away in that last quarter.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Miscarriage