Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

29 reviews

sleeping_roses's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

The perfect combination of plot- and charachter-driven development! I love this the way I love Six of Crows.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Infidelity

monster_tabs's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Death

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

LOVE. THIS. BOOK. Owen's worldbuilding is incredible, the characters are well-developed, and the social issues are deftly handled. I do have one major question left niggling at the back of my mind, but I'll wait until I read The Faithless Hawk (which I hope will happen soon) before voicing it, in the hopes that Owen addresses it there and I can stop worrying about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Death, Body horror, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

euthanasia; betrayal

guardianofthebookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Vomit

eviethebookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

1.0

One of the few fantasy books where I can safely say that the world building was super poor and boring? I didn't really care for the characters, nor did I find the plot that interesting or surprising at all 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, and Vomit

shadowspinner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Hate crime

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Death of parent

sometimescjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Classism, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

jerkysnax's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, Violence, Classism, and Injury/Injury detail

leila_reads_too_much's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death