Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Curse of Saints by Kate Dramis

5 reviews

lakea's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Religious bigotry

moonchild_cos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

soniajoy98's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Kidnapping and War

miraclesnow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-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? Yes

3.75

This story was unexpectedly cute and almost naive with its messages and I’m surprised with what Kate went with in how she handled a first novel in a fantasy series. Now cute isn’t a bad thing, but with the marketing for this book I thought it would be a bit… darker? For example, some of the tropes used here felt like they fell a bit short for the expectations I have for an adult novel and I would feel safe calling this new adult or even YA for experienced teenaged readers. The romance scenes truly felt like the only thing that was explicitly written for adults. Scenes like the traveling chapters are way too short and I feel like the pace of the story was artificially sped up before and after the main arc at

Rinnia

. And unfortunately I was not surprised at all when the twists in the story finally occurred. 

You can def tell this is a debut author by how all of these things are handled as an author still coming into their own, as some things felt a little surface level that should have had a bit more depth. Honestly I think if I had been told to focus on other parts of the story instead of what the marketing had advertised I would have been even more pleased with this book, but as is it wasn’t what I expected.

But I really like Aya, and to an extent Will. I also have hope Kate will develop her style and flavor of fantasy a bit more, and since the story ended at a point where almost anything could happen next, I do think there’s a lot to have hope for in the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

jadehusdanhicks's review

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

This slow burn story had everyone’s trust constantly in question and the reveals of who is trustworthy at the end definitely had my jaw dropped.  If not due to the astounding amount of plot twists and major events that occurred to further the story too. 

Battling with inner darkness, realising truths and lies all at once and realising your a literal saint is a lot for just Aya to deal with.  So aidon, will and josies roles as supporting main characters were welcome even through all the chaos and lapses in trust.  

I cannot wait to find out what happens next

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail