Reviews tagging 'Death'

King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair

78 reviews

melissaslibraryy's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Child death, Sexual content, Cursing, and Sexism

shaylac's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

TLDR: a book about a human princess betrothed to a powerful and feared vampire king and she must choose between her people or her new husband. There's definitely an enemies to lovers trope. 

I'll start off by saying that I have read the Hades saga from Scarlett St. Clair and I actually liked the Adrian x Isolde storyline a little better. The story is told from Isolde's perspective which, I thought was done well but there could have been a little more character development throughout the book. Their is a lot of spiciness, for some it's a lot, to me I think it's fine (it is a romance book so spiciness is expected). I wish Adrian was in more of the scenes but when he did make an appearance, I thought the storyline was a little better. Maybe we'll get a book from Adrian's perspective like the Hades saga but who knows. The ending was okay, I think it was building up to it. Will probably read the next book in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, and War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Cursing

elanuruysal's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, and Blood

Moderate: Death, War, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

unhinged_geminii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, War, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

jessihg12's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious 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

3.25

This has such a good plot. There could have easily been a 5 star book. There is just so much lacking in character development, world building, and too much focus on Isolde's inner turmoil that we miss out on so much. I plan on giving the second book a chance to see if, now that

Spoiler

her dad is dead

, if we can make some progress and do more world building.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

julienicole1106's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Blood, Sexual content, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

2busyreading's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

yilliun's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Spice was great. I think if you’re looking to get more into adult romance novels this is a good book to do it with.

I did find Isolde’s love/ hate thing became annoying especially later on in the book. It made her character fall flat for me. I think all the characters had so much more potential for development than they were given. Ironically, I think Adrian’s character was the most well done. He had solid motives and I do think the audience sees him grow throughout the book. Isolde just needed to make up her own damn mind.

The world building was awful though. I wanted to know so much more than the author provided to us. There were definitely things happening but I found myself just waiting for the next smut scene.

Spoiler

or Adrian professing his love to Isolde

. Honestly, I skimmed through the ending. I still plan to read the rest of the series, but this is a romance novel first with some fantasy on the side.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Grief

It’s a vampire novel so the violence and blood descriptions happen quite often later in the book.

belava's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Death, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

doubletherazzle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

The beginning was a bit rough, but once the story fell into a groove I enjoyed the mystery and fantasy of the story telling and will definitely read the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Cursing, Sexual content, Death, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Infidelity, Slavery, Sexism, and Racism