Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

24 reviews

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

This was excellent, I loved everything about it, I just looked very historical fantasy, especially with dragons 

I can't believe her husband died!! That was so heartbreaking, he was so good for her

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

sangsmiles's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Death

idesofmarch's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Blood

pagesihavenotyetread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Classism

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted 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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This was a wonderful book. I had a great time reading it and I basically read it all in one-sitting. I loved the memorial style and the foreshadowing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Misogyny

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Kidnapping, Grief, and Pregnancy

snerp_reads's review against another edition

Stopped reading after some weird choices for the portrayal of Vystrana that left a bad taste in my mouth. None of the other reviews on here mentioned this, but the entire crafting of their fictional religion was pretty obviously antisemitic. It took me a few pages to catch onto it, but it's very obvious that the Vystrana religion was based on Judaism. The religion of Vystrana in the book was portrayed as backwards, savage, and more superstitious and sexist than the main character's religion. 
I made the connection that she had based their religion off of Judaism when I came across two main details in the book; the specific detail that the villagers use graggers to symbolize their disapproval of her arrival, and a ritual the villagers have of fully submerging themselves in "living waters" (it was straight up just a mikvah).

The villagers were then written forcing the main character to take part in the submersion in front of everyone watching, and she even briefly thought they were going to rob or kill her at this point.

 
I wish authors would quit dragging in their own antisemitism into otherwise perfectly fine books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

mothmania's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Classism

Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Rape, Violence, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation

readandfindout's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

4.0

Style/writing: 4 stars
Themes: 4.5 stars
Characters: 4 stars
Plot: 4 stars
Worldbuilding: 4 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy

ophycore's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Pregnancy