Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

3 reviews

calicat42's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

thumbeleia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

foreverinastory's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

This was so addicting. I love Kemmerer's fantasy books just as much as her contemporary books!

Look no one was confirmed queer yet, but a man made eyes at another man and I HAVE SUSPICIONS!! I will sink with this ship.

Rep: white female MC, white male MC, cast of biracial and BIPOC supporting characters (no ethnicity implied since it's fantasy countries).

CWs: Blood, death, fire/explosions, injury/injury detail, medical content (widespread plague/plague outbreaks), murder, violence. Moderate: abandonment, grief, kidnapping, past mentions of parental death for both MCs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment