Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

70 reviews

writer_egreene's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lauramparis'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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content

elledanie's review

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Do not recommend—doesn’t live up to all the hype. Where was the fantasy??

Was it seriously only the magical typewriter thing? The supernatural creatures we barely saw? “Divine” being used as simply an adjective instead of referring to anyone’s magic or abilities or anything related to gods/goddesses is so lame.

No one warned us that this was primarily a WWI book like?? No thx!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

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

Minor: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

juliamb's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Classism

stormeno's review

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

“Even when the world seems to stop, threatening to crumble, and the hour feels dark as the siren rings… it isn’t a crime to feel joy.”

Iris is devastated when her brother goes off to war and begins writing him letters, slipping them into her wardrobe. Unbeknownst to her, the wardrobe is enchanted and just so happens to deliver them to her rival: Roman. Roman, a pompous rich kid, is vying for the same coveted columnist position Iris is going for. As they go head-to-head, the gods have risen from their slumber and soon a war rages on around them. 

With a little bit of everything—academic rivals to lovers, magical type writers, vengeful gods—this isn’t your typical enemies to lovers trope. As Iris and Roman’s mysterious connection is forged, we vicariously grow with them through their letters. It was such a unique way to bring this book to life. 

I really enjoyed it—except for that cliff-hanger ending!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Abandonment

riverblaze24'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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

sparksofkell's review

Young YA. Info dumps without enough exploration of motives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Car accident, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Suicide, Abandonment, and War

mariahlynnpeck's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-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? No

4.25

This book, keeps you invested to the end. It keeps you hooked and is such an easy read. Iris and Roman are fated to be together it feels like especially through the history of their typewriters but the way it leaves you hanging leaves you to ponder how will it all end?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abandonment

saskiahill's review

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail