Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

31 reviews

klsreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

booksandstardust's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Dementia, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

bbmaan's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, and War

teabrewer's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-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? Yes

3.0

The beggining seemed very good. I got my hopes up that it would be closer to the first one until about 2/3 of the book. After that it lost itself a bit. There were multiple dialogues in which I could hear the author's voice instead of the character's. Especially forced exposition, mostly trying to change lore last minute to fix plot holes.

I didn't like what the author did with the Valors, with the exception of Castor.

In general, the end was ok. Barely above average.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

bookfilledcottage's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

Stephanie Garber writes beautifully and her way of describing characters as well as their feelings has such a gorgeous depth, that they truly jump out of the page.

I’d heart readers were generally diaappointed with the ending to this trilogy: but I can honestly say, I think this might’ve been my favourite of the three! 

The way everything started to click and was resolved felt satisfying and made a lot of sense to me. I think the story developed really well since the first novel and I actually am very pleased with the way everything was wrapped up.

Now, do I think this is the best romantic famtasy I’ve ever read? Personally, I like others better and I do think this saga might be a tad over-hyped. 

Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed the books and read them as fast as I could because I wanted to know how things would turn out in the end. So, they’re kind of perfect for a reading slump if you’re struggling to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Kidnapping

esterslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

kari_f's review against another edition

dark

1.5

I was going to give this book 2 stars, because it was overly frilly, and I only liked one character, and felt like it had no plot. But then the nonsensical epilogue happened. 

Tell me how a curse can have eyes and ears, enough sentience to understand human language and ability to follow and watch characters, but it doesn’t have lungs to be able to take a breath. Because THAT is where we need to suspend belief, here. Just… what?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, and Abandonment

Minor: Death of parent

taylorjayne's review against another edition

0.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kemikemi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

i liked this one much better than the first two, and i think it is the best book in the series; i dont know if thats partly because i read this one as an ebook instead of listening to an audiobook like i did the first two, but it felt like there was a definite difference in writing. 

this book is split into three different pov’s, so we aren’t just stuck in evangeline’s grating mind, and in this book i didn’t notice the overly repetitive dragging on narration that bothered me so much during the first two books. and although i was still screaming at evangeline throughout, this book was to me personally leaps and bounds better for her relationship chemistry with jacks than the other two…nothing like some high stakes outright PINING LONGING PAINFUL YEARNING and getting into the mind of the love interest to get you invested in some fantasy lovers. 

idk if i would ever reread the series because there wasn’t enough gratifying fluff epilogue established relationship scenes for me to put myself thruough it all again; i wish we’dve gotten a bit more after everything i suffered, but the couple is cute and it did get a bit swoony in this book i won’t lie so by the end i did like them as a couple they kinda won me over. 

also i face cast jacks as ricky from zb1 and you can’t change my mind! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Death

applegal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Way too much Apollo and not nearly enough Jacks. Don’t get me wrong, the ending was *chefs kiss* but the plot falls a little flat when 80% is spent on the same dilemma, 20% what we actually want to see. The eve/jacks dynamic really fueled this series so having it missing for the majority of the book was a let down 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Gaslighting