Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

68 reviews

nonotyoshi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

welp, i finished the series finally

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

creolelitbelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

My favorite aspect of this trilogy's ending is how when the tide turns for the worse, solutions are not magically found sitting around every corner. Alina and her allies have to work hard and struggle to survive to the battle and never expect the fighting and odds to fall in their favors. I love the realism of that, even if the story is full of fantasy. Parts of the ending feel underwhelming, but certain characters who took convincing for me to root for are beloved for me by the end. The battle's conclusion may fit the world-building, but I'm much more satisfied with the epilogue. Grishaverse lore is optimal in this book, and I look forward to learning more of it from other stories and books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

oxfordcommas91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

Unfortunately this one was an underwhelming and disappointing way to round out the Shadow and Bone trilogy. This series really peaked with the second book and I wish that the author would have given the characters a more satisfying story arc throughout.

I really disliked Mal and Alina's love story throughout this last installment. It felt forced - they had absolutely zero chemistry at all and would have been better off staying friends. Alina would have been much better suited to Nikolai in the end and Bardugo's refusal to kill off any of the important characters also frustrated me.

The beginning of this book was so slow and while it picked up as it went along, I found myself hoping for it to just end rather than being excited to reach the climax and the "final battle" as I should have with a series of this nature. 
A 3 star rating feels generous but I don't think it deserves worse - it just wasn't the right finale in my mind for these characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

glund_01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood

undecidedpersonality's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Medical content, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kenzie_simone456's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Torture, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mckiheather's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol