Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey

4 reviews

redwing's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Gore, Blood, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

ginameix's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Torture, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

graff_fuller's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

This was a fitting conclusion to this first trilogy. 

I would consider book one: Arrows of the Queen as a YA novel. The protagonist is young (around 13 years old) and the story is a coming of age story.

In the second book: Arrow's Flight...we see a transition, but still it is relatively a YA book with slight more adult themes (which I actually liked).

This third book is truly an adult book, with VERY adult themes. Some might not like that I've said it this way, but I really believe that the arc of Talia has been VERY well done, indeed.

The YA and Adult attributions are different in each person, publisher, author...so take what I say with a grain of salt. I am NOT the intended audience of this book, being a male, 57 years old...and reading this book 35 years after it was published.

There are scenes in this book that were truly hard to read. There are some triggers in this book (which will be noted at the bottom). BUT, with that said...it was incredibly well done.

I had a hard time getting "into" the story at the beginning,  but by the end...I couldn't put it down.

I hope others have enjoyed this story as much as I have. I don't know when, but I'd like to futher read in this world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Murder

bibliophile1's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

I listed a lot of trigger warnings because these themes/scenes do exist in this book. However, the focus is always on how the main character feels emotionally about what’s going on, so the physical descriptions of these events are mentioned but are glossed over; no really in-depth details. The author wants you to know the heroine is suffering, but the overall theme is about overcoming adversity and belief in something greater than oneself.