Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty

68 reviews

praaliine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, War, and Classism

Moderate: Misogyny

spacerkip's review against another edition

adventurous tense

• 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

Knowing that there's still another book in the series was honestly the most stressful part of reading this. Watching all the different plotlines come together and knowing it all must go catastrophically wrong had me yelling in my car on multiple occasions. (I read this via audiobook on my daily commute. Apologies to those who thought I was road raging at them at red lights.)

I really fell in love with Ali as a character in this book. The timeskip provided him with the appropriate room to grow and come into his own as an active force, rather than a reactive one. I loved seeing him spark loyalty in those around him and rise as a leader. I think the author does wonderful job of showing how a character sees themself and internally justifies their own actions. You can follow the logic of a POV character and understand why they act the way they do, then switch POV and feel completely different about them once you see their actions from the outside.

I am once again going against my usual habits and picking up the next book as soon as I can. As soon as I finish some other library books...it is SO over for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Slavery, Trafficking, and Fire/Fire injury

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gore, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

ko_rax's review against another edition

adventurous tense 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

Chakraborty's The Kingdom of Copper continues the tale left off in its prequel The City of Brass, following the protagonists who have settled five years after Dara and Nahri's failed attempt to escape. This novel focuses even further on domestic policy in Daevabad and introduces strategic warfare.

Love the execution of political turmoil! For a few scenes, I wished that Chakraborty refrained from telling than showing, but those moments were so sparse that they did not rip me out of the flow.
If the first novel was Nahri's arc, then this one is most definitely

Alizayd

's. Albeit slower than Nahri, it was heartwrenching to watch this character's growth, and I hold them dear. And again, every character is believable and I cannot bring myself to hate the majority of them.

I am delighted by the twists and turns! I have already picked up The Empire of Gold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Genocide, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Slavery

saracat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.25

While there are some characters I disliked but felt like I could understand their actions, there were others I wanted to slap very hard regularly for acting so irrationally and purely on emotion. The three main characters I continued to feel for, though not equally. There were two I definitely sympathized more with because it felt like they were making efforts and looking for how to do better. Though, trauma and having ideology put before a person from a young age cannot be any easy thing to change. 

There were a lot of twists in this. And I liked how sometimes one character’s perspective was purposely not gone back to regularly to keep the suspense for the reader about how all things were progressing. 

Chakraborty conveyed the complexity of emotions and relationships between people very well as things progressed in this book. And I’m very interested to see how things continue into the third book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

mice_are_nice's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death

dreadspawn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Slavery, and Death of parent

_forestofpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

Despite this sequel having far less action than the first book, I loved it even more. I was enthralled by the continuation of the insane final chapters of book 1 and then the time jump in book 2. The author leaned heavily on the themes she touched on in book 1 and went hard on the politics and war. In my opinion, this was handled so well and was always engaging to read.

There was never a time where I felt like the author was trying to tell me how to feel and instead had these incredibly complex characters and morals and different wills and beliefs all mixed up, and it was realistic and frustrating and compelling at every turn. I was frequently yelling at the pages, these characters who I like so much. 

The last 200 pages took me for a ride and had me constantly tense and worried for everyone. I had no idea what would happen. Exhilarating and wild ending. I cannot wait to pick up the third and final book.

Nahri finally did what I wanted and made her own choices! She seems much more matured and cautious. I also grew to love several other characters I didn't like or just didnt understand in the first book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Body horror and Slavery

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense 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: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Racism, Death of parent, and Classism

mmelibertine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War