Reviews tagging 'Child death'

D'ombre et de vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

30 reviews

temia04's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was very enjoyable. The story was tense and action packed which kept me turning the page and not wanting to put it down. 
I liked seeing Amari's development.

It was very interesting to see her "fall" because of her thirst for power even though she felt like she was doing the right thing.

I liked seeing the relationship between Zelie and Roen (even though I really love Zelie and Inan together). It was nice to see Zelie in a relationship with someone she trusts.

 

With that ending, I am super excited to see what happens in the last book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

nadia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

I wish I'd reread Children of Blood and Bone, which I'd read back in 2019, before reading this instalment. I thought the summaries I'd read online were good enough, but there were key details I couldn't remember, which impacted my understanding and emotional connection to the book when I started. Still, I managed to get into it after not too long!

This instalment wasn't as strong as the first. The characters' behaviour and decisions didn't always line up or seemed too naïve, some plot lines seemed rushed, and certain things needed a bit more explanation and elaboration. It definitely felt a little repetitive at times too.

Still, it wins point for ultimately being a page turner! Won't leave the final instalment so long. Plan to read it next month!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

csmall73's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

A nice little bit of matricide would solve 90% of the problems in this tragedy. Any mercy is met with genocide, manipulation, delusional justification of absolutely atrocious acts of violence. 

Inan and Amari keep falling into old childish narcissistic mental traps, ptsd and insecurities.  Frustrating close calls and glaringly obvious pitfalls due to emotional attachments. 

Still seeing more throne of glass esque than the announced Harry Potter similarities. Especially with the amount of trauma, close calls, and epic empathy fails. I’m 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, War, and Classism

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.75

Am I ok? No, I've been staring at a wall thinking about

Mazhelis death and Mama Agbas sacrifaces

What a great sequal.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Gore, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lsol8tion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

TOMI ADEYEMI GOIN 2 FOR 2! This book gave me so much stress & anxiety but I couldn't put it down! AMARI...GIRLLLL you fucked up BADDDDD. Like there's not coming back from what you've done.

Forcing your way into being a Connector elder, leading Inan to the sanctuary, SACRFICING ZÉLIE & HER VILLAGE

ALL FOR THAT STUPID THRONE??? ARE YOU DAFT?? Inan...I still don't like you but you weren't eggregiously terrible like in Book 1. QUEEN NEHANDA YOU SKIN- BLEACHED BITCHHHHHHHHHHH

YOU'RE THE REASON THE MAJI ARE OPRESSED IN THIS CURRENT ERA?? YOU KILLED SARAN'S FATHER??? I HOPE YOU'RE DEAD

I just want Zélie & Tzain to catch a break maneeee. They been through so much. Röem...I don't feel anything for him tbh. I just don't want Zélie's heart broken again so I'm keeping him at arm's length. Tzain's realization about

Amari's plan to sacrifice Zélie was so well-written! I could feel the pain in his voice!

That's how you know an author's perfecting their craft. When you can feel the emotions of characters through words. 

I can't wait to read Book 3!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

brynalexa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Second time reading this, first time by audio format. I enjoyed the print version more. It’s fun to see the growth of the characters but, wow, do they make some awful decisions. The ending shocked me all over again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: Animal death and Alcohol

bookishperseus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Fire/Fire injury

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

Mâzeli was annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

amschelly153's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Well written, complicated and lovable characters. Beautiful and intriguing magic system! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

acielawhorn3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed this book quite a bit for some of it, a solid 4 stars. But after

so many plans failed and constantly hearing about how Amari needs to tale the throne and blah blah blah it just became so incredibly redundant at times.

. Just like in the last novel, Inan was still my favorite POV to read and see him come to his senses by the end of the novel. but

just like the last one his constant flip-flopping on whose side to take was just kind of annoying especially when most of the time theres no real reason for the changing decisions. He did the right thing by the end of the novel which is what matters but still it was a little annoying.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death