Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

242 reviews

sarah_hutchins's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Moderate: Violence, Addiction, Torture, Murder, Blood, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Pregnancy, Slavery, and Trafficking

inles_inlet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Slavery

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Rape

madisonstarkov's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Trafficking, Gun violence, Addiction, Death, and Slavery

bri_14's review against another edition

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Not better than the first to me but it was still very good! It was cool seeing the band regroup and seek rightful vengeance. But I truly had no idea how Kaz would attempt to pull everything off. But like the rest of Ketterdam, he’s always 5 steps ahead.

Character highlights this go around are Kaz of course, Nina, Inej and Jesper. Nina is hilarious even when she’s overcoming pain. But Jesper is so stressful.

Spoiler

Between his father coming to town to him accidentally kissing Kuwei, I was like how many more hits can he manage??

But I think Kaz and Inej really brought it home in the final chapters. I didn’t expect Dirtyhands to be so intentional about Inej

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from damaging the pleasure house to buying her boat to finding her parents.

Kaz may not be the *best* person in the world but he’s the best person for everyone in the Crows. 

I knew someone would get severely hurt but I didn’t expect THAT. But I think if it were someone else it would’ve hit a bit harder, like one of the girls or Jesper.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Slavery

joppiereading's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

I wasn’t really sure about the hype surrounding these characters after finishing Six of Crows. But this book sealed the deal for me. I love them, too, and the way their stories meet and diverge, the way they have their own goals and their own drive, the way they support one another (or not), and the ways in which their dynamics can change based on who they interact with. Was the plot great? It was fun. Did Kaz save the day just a time too many with a barely believable plan? Maybe. But I don’t mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Grief, Sexism, Torture, Trafficking, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

c_l_ara's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Addiction, Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Dementia, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Trafficking, and Rape

Minor: Ableism and Genocide

ford_defect's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Trafficking

Minor: War, Pregnancy, and Forced institutionalization

aliciawhatsthestory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Sexual violence

marvelous_mint's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

Starting almost right from where Six of Crows left off, Crooked Kingdom is an excellent continuation and an equally satisfying end to Kaz and his gang of misfits' story.

This book has the same fantastic character development, well thought-out story, wonderfully written scenes and dialogue, as well as the same great balance a darkness and humour of the first. 

A beautiful and slighty bittersweet ending.

In short, if you loved the first book, you won't be disappointed with this sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Slavery, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Torture

carolinacortez's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

NADIE ME DIJO QUE IBA A LLORAR CON ESTE LIBRO MALDITA SEA

Amo con todo mi corazón a cada uno de los personajes, Leigh hiso un excelente trabajo escribiendolos, todos tienen una historia ni uno se siente como un extra y de verdad te encariñas con todos (obvio mi favorito es Kaz) 

"There's no time to constantly be apologizing for existing" 

Está secuela me gustó muchísimo más que el primero por qué siento que se desarrolló mucho más la dinámica de todos como grupo, lo acabo de terminar y ya los extraño 

"She had chosen to live freely as a killer rather than die as a slave" 

Y como desarrollo todos los romances UFFFFF, tengo a mi pareja favorita y no es la obvia,te amo Leigh bardugo aunque me hayas hecho llorar en las últimas 40pgs 

"No mourners
No funerals" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Trafficking, Torture, Pregnancy, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault