Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer

25 reviews

lisashelves's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Violence, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Death of parent, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Physical abuse and Fire/Fire injury

raineedayreader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Body horror, Classism, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Excrement

praaliine's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

i turned to this book because i was in a reading slump and i needed something quick and fun to read, and this book was both. i’m unsure if i’ll continue with the series but i think it helped with the slump. i will say it’s best to go into the story blind, it’ll be much more fun to read that way (i didn’t, so it may have influenced my experience with the book, i would have enjoyed it a lot more if i had).

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Child death

jednakniekinga's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture and Grief

mollysbooklist's review

adventurous hopeful tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I loved this! Great character development and plot. Once I started I didn’t want to stop. I was immediately invested even through the world building. 


The story highlights that life is not always as simple as good vs. bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Classism, Murder, Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

zozo_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

Great world building did sort of expect the ending though. There was a plot twist in the beginning that I would have never expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

shannnne's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content

ka_ke's review against another edition

Meh. I think I’ve just moved beyond the Y/A reading level, that or some Y/A authors are just not giving their readers enough credit. As much as a robin hood retelling is interesting and certainly not over done, I think the whole “we hate the king & his brother thing” has become a cliché.  Don’t be a cliché my dear. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, Grief, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

littletiramisu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Torture, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Confinement, Physical abuse, War, and Violence

theteamsreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

3.5

A well imagined world with a Robin Hood-esque main character sets off the start of a promising epic fantasy.  When reading this book I found difficulty, at first, with the many locations and side characters to keep track of.  Certain characters I couldn't bond with either.  A sequel is desperately needed to hand, as, by the end of the book, all opinions will be shifted entirely.  Recommend to anyone looking for a Medieval fantasy revolving around disease, high politics, minor romantic tensions and a small flavour of found family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality, Torture, and War

Minor: Blood and Excrement