Reviews tagging 'Grief'

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

16 reviews

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Moral of the story, it's spelled "Man"ipulation for a reason. Brie deserves an Anti-hero arc. I support women's rights, but more importantly I support women's wrongs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and War

politewriter's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

3.25

World building and immersion are amazingly well done. There’s lots of factions, characters, and lands. But despite this, I never felt confused or overloaded with information. But the Female Lead is so irritating. She’s not only naive, but denser than lead. She never asks the right questions, so much so that any foreshadowing becomes blatant and frustrating. It’s one thing to have an author guide the readers to future plot twists, and another to spoon feed them it with their nose pinched shut. I hope the supporting characters are treated better in the next book, and that the FL wises up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Genocide, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Trafficking, and War

chyntiabrown's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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

4.5

This was a 3,5 stars until the last 50 or so pages. You knew a plot twist was comming but I did not expect this one! Looking forward to the second book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

soundlysmitten's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

I didn’t catch big feelings for this book. It’s been compared to both The Cruel Prince and ACOTAR, and while I can see some similarities in the story line, this one fell a bit flat for me. Not to say it’ll put you to sleep—I actually found it relatively entertaining, but I felt like I could easily put it down after two or three chapters at a time.

For one thing, the world building isn’t very impressive. But I suppose readers are given as much as possible, considering the main character is new to the world herself, confined to few places, and kept in the dark about much. The real let down for me was that I struggled to connect with Brie and I wasn’t into any of her love interests either. I found one of them sappy (but sus) and the other arrogantly sus. As for the plot, I saw the big revelation coming early on and I’m usually wrong about those things... but I did like the way the book ends because it sets the stage for a more compelling installment to follow.

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend These Hollow Vows, but if you‘re into YA fantasy and love triangles, it might be worth the read. Your experience could be the opposite of mine!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, Trafficking, Abandonment, and Alcohol

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

Trying to write reviews for the books I read are always so hard. Every time I tell myself I’m gonna make small notes as I go so my reviews can be more focused on the story etc itself and not on my emotions BUT I still haven’t started doing that lol I really loved this story! It was genuinely fun! I had a blast reading this and couldn’t put it down. I can’t freaking wait for next summer because I need my hands on book two NOW. I need to know! I will definitely be rereading this book when I get book two. Because there are too many things I want to say but can’t right now. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Trafficking and Death of parent

mybookthrone's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Blood, Grief, and Death of parent

One of the characters is drugged without their knowledge.