Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Deck of Omens by C.L. Herman

4 reviews

katyfayyyx'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Like how do you ruin book in the last 15 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, and Alcohol

frantically's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Loved this! It took me so time to get back into the world again but after the ⅓-mark, I couldn't put it down. We get loads of revelations and world building in this and it was all really well done and I was so shocked at some of the twists. 

Of course, this is still YA, so all the teenagers have to save the world (aka...one little town) but that was still believable in the story and it made sense for them to be the "heroes". 

These kids (and adults, too, let's be honest) are all such queer messes and I love them <3 I still don't get why so many novels have to end in ALL the characters have to end up in relationships but I'm fine with how these ended up.  

Such a great duology that I can wholeheartedly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

allisonsmith120's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

lavieboheme215's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol