Reviews tagging 'War'

Unravel the Dusk by Elizabeth Lim

24 reviews

hibou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

pierwsza moja pisania recenzja od dłuższego czasu :D
ostatnio oglądałem Rayę i Ostatniego Smoka, więc podążając za dalekowschodnimi klimatami postanowiłem skończyć dylogię "krew gwiazd"
i nie żałowałem tego!
naprawdę, rollercoaster emocji do ostatniej strony
potwierdza to czas przeczytania przeze mnie tej książki, tj. dwa dni
im really impressed
bardzo się cieszę, że w drugim tomie przeważały te aspekty fantastyczno/przygodowe nad romantycznymi (które były przytłaczające w pierwszej części)
niektóre cytaty żywcem z literatury pięknej 
5/5
jeżeli podobał wam się pierwszy tom, to ten spodoba wam się jeszcze bardziej! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Abandonment

januaryt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and War

ricardo_sb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

onemamareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

3.75

Read my full review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/unravel-the-dusk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Misogyny

moonytoast's review against another edition

adventurous challenging

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping

beyondapage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery and Death of parent

rinku's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

3.5

 Unravel the Dusk is the finale of the Spin the Dawn series, and I gave this book 3.5 stars – half a star more than its predecessor. 

I really didn’t make many notes while reading this book. This may be because it’s over one and half year ago that I’ve read the first novel and I wasn’t hence too attached to the characters and the plot anymore. After the events of the first book, Maia is returning to the palace where the wedding of Sarnai was prepared. After a terrible accident, Maia has to flee and find a cure for her curse while also trying to save the whole kingdom. 

There were many things about the book that I enjoyed: the dramatic plot, its pacing, the writing style, and the different settings. They were not perfect but still nice to read about. For example, some moments didn’t make so much sense, like the fact that

no one would notice that Maia pretends to be Sarnai or that the emperor would not kill her when he’s supposedly so cruel

. I was also not the biggest fan of the finale with

Maia suddenly being able to fly. It could’ve been just more epic, and the ending was too much a happy ending for my taste

. 

I generally liked all the characters, especially Sarnai and Maia. It was interesting to see how much Maia changed because of being taken over by Baldur. It was kinda cliché though that Maia would lose her memories when he would completely take over her. 

There were some references in Unravel the Dusk to Lim’s newest book, Six Crimson Cranes, and I wonder if both play in the same universe. If yes, I’m even more interested to read it since the world and its lore the author created was so great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Emotional abuse

matheo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

emmaowens's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Sexism, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

Honestly, I didn't care about any of the characters in this book. The only character that had some potential was Lady Sarnai but she ended up not doing anything either so overall I just found this book to be super disappointing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Grief and War

Minor: Death of parent