Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

51 reviews

yilliun's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Silas🥹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

annakh16's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.5

This was good fun. The book is usually advertised as a “book about books/magical library“ fantasy romance. Personally, I thought it was more plot-focused than vibey and the romance was also pretty subtle. (No criticism, just an observation). 

Elisabeth was a likeable MC, I particularly enjoyed how self-assured she was. Nathaniel‘s humour reminds me of Will Herondale which is always a plus. 

However: if I had seen one more mention of Elisabeth‘s height, I think I would’ve run head-first into a wall. She‘s tall. We get it. Please stop! 

A lot of plot points in the first half were fairly predictable imo. The overall mystery/conflict was fun but didn’t have me super hooked. One reviewer pointed out that the villain is your classic

delusional, “I‘m doing this for the good of the world“

type, which I have read a ton of times before and this didn’t add anything new - so maybe it was that. 

So overall, nothing that blew my socks off. But a solid read that I had a good time with. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Death of parent

The car accident is actually a carriage accident but this was the closest match I could find.

jzupp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

marena02's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

margaret_k30's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Gore, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, and Classism

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.0

What a cute book. It’s a YA coming of age but with an orphan hero. There are demons and sorcery. It was interesting that this hero saves the whole world with the help of her love interest. It’s mostly a hero’s journey. Not much romance. But still interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

nat_kiverse's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

ankiaisreading's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hannasreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

sandwiiche'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

my goodness, nathaniel and elisabeth are so tender and sweet 🥹🩵 and silas has such a soft spot under his stoic exterior 
my only nitpick about this book was that i thought the resolution was a little too easy. nevertheless, i loved this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail