Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

61 reviews

dunecello's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

Beautifully written, and lovely use of the Squishy Wizard trope, with an in-canon reason for it!
The Scottish fantasy setting is so cozy and the stories within the story felt like fairy tales.
It is rare that I enjoy romance in fiction, but the dynamics between the main couple in this book seemed appealing when I heard about it, and they did not let me down. Absolutely loved Jack and Adaira as a pair. On the other hand, I found the more traditional (in terms of romance literature) secondary couple uninteresting and my attention wavered during their scenes. It got to the point where I groaned whenever it was Sidra's POV. Really did not enjoy her characterization. Though I will say, the quote

"I've built my life upon something that can be taken from me"

hit hard. I needed to read that.
The reason for the girls' disappearances ended up being a little ridiculous. But as someone whose

ancestors were involved in a blood feud that stupidly still exist today

, it's not that farfetched.
The ending broke my heart as it was supposed to so I will be reading the next book at some point. Hope we get a lot more Jack ♥ Adaira in the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

styxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bookjudy42's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Exceptionally written, deep and satisfying lore, characters that make your heart ache. I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Torture, and Medical content

kwthor's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

elaineh7's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? No

4.0

This is a very cozy atmospheric fantasy that is super whimsical. I loved the slow burn romance. I enjoyed following the multiple povs throughout the story. The world building was really great forming this magical island.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

minnow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This novel has many of the tropes I love: enemies-to-lovers, slow burn, lots of longing, gorgeous descriptions of food and clothing; additionally, the setting is lush and beautiful, with a rich lore. The plot is interesting and hints at mystery, and there are several love-based subplots. I should have loved this book. But I didn't.

It's entertaining and is, in parts, beautifully written. However, it's at best a snack, and not a very filling one. It takes some of the tropes I love and over-uses them until it made my eyes roll every time they popped up in the text--how many times can Jack rake back his hair with one hand? There are so many aching chests that this story needed a cardiologist more than it needed a bard. Every emotion is set at ten, every moment is The Most Dramatic Moment, which reduces every truly heightened emotion and moment to zero. If everything is in stereo, nothing is in stereo.

Yet the world-building is lovely and well-done. I wish it had been focused on more and there had been less romantic navel-gazing and reminiscing performed by secondary characters. The development of the main characters feels abrupt; it's handled better with the supporting characters Torin and Sidra. There is one mildly spicy scene that is well done but feels poorly placed in the narrative.

A beautiful premise that feels shallow. I won't read further into the series as it didn't enchant me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

kendal_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

kbowles24's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

chelbelle122's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

Folklore was great...but felt very slow. Like at times I was the one trudging through a landscape that instead of being shortened by the folk was being stretched. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

rsb12's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Self harm, Sexual content, Medical content, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment