Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Ridder Keladry by Tamora Pierce

9 reviews

art_books_chemistry's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Slavery

Minor: Confinement, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

musen_henning's review against another edition

adventurous

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy

kes7706's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

An amazing end to the Protector of the Small quartet. I had forgotten that it was being written suring the events of September 11, 2001. This is my 7th or 8th re-read, and this time I was struck with how well Tamora Pierce drew on the emotions of that traumatic event in American history to tell this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and Slavery

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Sexual assault

inferiorwit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense 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: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

house_of_hannah's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.25

I don't know what it was, but this took me a lot longer than normal to finish. It just felt dull, and I had no desire to read it with how repetitive it felt. 

This is definitely the darkest of the 4 books, but was one of the least interesting. The last 100 pages has most of the action, and the rest is basically just people living their lives in a Fort. It did feel nice to see/learn more about the side-characters, but it also felt a bit "too little too late". 

Kel was the same as she's been in all of the books. She really never changes, nor has any difficulty accomplishing anything. The final climax of the book was about 2 pages, and that was it. Even the MC commented on how it wasn't what she expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death and Rape

manarnia's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

And so ends another quartet! Kel and her friends are fantastic. Parts of this book dragged for me, but overall, it was a good ending to Kel's story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, and Trafficking

Minor: Torture

victorianrogue's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

iamsammie27's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

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

4.0

At the end of Squire, the Chamber of the Ordeal gave Kel a mission: she is to find and kill the mage who uses necromancy to power the killing devices with the souls of children. As a Knight of the Realm, she is forced to follow the orders given to her by her King, and those orders include constructing and governing a refugee camp. When the Scanrans destroy the refugee camp, taking all adult survivors as slaves and bringing the children to the necromancer, she has a choice: does she obey her King or does she track down the Scanrans and recover her people? 

 This was not my favorite of the quartet - I found the ending very abrupt, and it felt a bit like the author was trying to tie off loose ends by force. That being said, not-at-her-best Tamora Pierce is still leagues better than other authors at their best. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Misogyny and Slavery