Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan

3 reviews

iono's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Alcoholism, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

karlin0336's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-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

It's been a year and a half since I read Theft of Swords.  I really should have gotten around to reading this book sooner.  It was every bit as good as the previous one, if not better.  Looking forward to reading the conclusion in the near future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, and Death of parent

pages_with_panda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious slow-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

3.75

Book THREE: 

This book had a much slower pace, and a LOT more politics. The first books had a  nice adventure theme to them while this one has a lot more history and politics and dialogue...Which made it drag a bit. 

Some interesting character development between the duo a lot of depth to the side characters. I was in love with Arista and loved how she was starting to hone her magic.

We get to see more mysterious prophecies and riddles a lot of foreshadowing which I LOVE. So YAY! 

Thrace was also another favorite character...I love her so much and I cried when she cried!! 

Honestly, you can tell the author got his inspiration from TV shows because every chapter or scene feels like something I would be watching. Things were being revealed to the reader, as they’re being revealed to the other characters and I LOVED that.

BOOK 4:

In this book we get a pirate story which was exciting. You can tell the author did his research on terminology for boats because I had very little idea what was what! 

Another story that felt a little slow....They’re stuck on the boat for quite a while before they reach their destination and there's a big twist that was kind of expected and I'm surprised they didn't figure it out sooner? At least Royce could've figured this out sooner. 

I really liked that the characters are all interconnected. It was a bit hard to remember names and I wouldn’t have been able to without my Kindle’s X-ray feature and searching pasts texts, but there's also a glossary and that helped a lot. The world building is so good in this series, I love getting lost in it. 

Ultimately: slower than the past stories, this one seemed to drag. Left the action towards the end but didn’t resolve anything and left with a huge cliffhanger, unlike the past stories that seemed to wrap-up things before moving on. 

816 pages. 
(⚠️Content Warnings; 
Graphic: violence, blood , classism, prejudice, grief, 
Moderate: ptsd, death of child, death of a parent, grief
Minor: sexual assault, Injury, fire injury, genocide, ableism, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Genocide, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury