Reviews tagging 'Death'

Shadow Princess by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

18 reviews

zia_c's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

1.0

So the fae celebrates Christmas?🤨 

I now understand the heavy criticism of this book series. This book is the best example to prove all of the points. And I'm too annoyed to write a polite review.  But one thing tho, Why the author did the twins so dirty? Even the prostitutes in dark romances have better sense of judgement and a spine but these twins.. Hah! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexism, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Excrement, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

unicornofthesea's review

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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

slyveimaeve's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Physical abuse, Death, Cursing, Blood, Sexual content, Abandonment, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual assault and Suicidal thoughts

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Murder, Self harm, Alcoholism, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Genocide, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

bblanka's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcoholism, Blood, Kidnapping, Violence, Death, Bullying, Death of parent, Torture, Cursing, and Grief

crinkledmochi's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Chile…. 

I’m over it like I really tried to figure why I’m still reading this series like yes they are a mess and slightly entertaining but these books are truly bad (and problematic). Especially after having read this one in particular I can not keep going I just can not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Self harm

Minor: Grief

love3v07's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Death

fireheart_2010's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? N/A

4.0

I loved this book but not as much as the first three. </ where is this war the nymphs declared in the last book? That hasn’t even been mentioned > things definitely got dark in this one and it really added to the story and there are now so many questions I have since finishing this book which I hope will be answered in the fifth one. The reason why I rated it a 4 star and say it’s my least favorite so far is because I feel like it’s lacking action and there’s a lot that seems to be focused around sex or breaking the Vegas and okay I get the sex part but, I feel like we are past the heirs breaking the Vegas. I know they aren’t exactly friends but this back and forth stuff is just getting old in this book. The writing is good, story is great, kept me on edge, still loved it and am ready for book 5.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Bullying, Physical abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Alcoholism

msvernier's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

charhollyx's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

What the fuck was that ending for? Do the writers ENJOY inflicting that kind of heartbreak?!
Honestly this book had me along the entire spectrum of emotion, turning my love for some characters into hatred and my hatred for other characters into love. 
There wasn’t a great character development for the main and side characters, whilst one characters development crashed and burned entirely.

Spoiler

if Orion is dead I’ll scream. 
I can’t believe Tory and Darius and Elysian Mates, it doesn’t really make sense. Yes their desire is deep but their hatred CLEARLY ran deeper. It makes me question whether Darcy and Orion are mates because his love outweighed any other feeling and responsibility he had.
I wouldn’t mind if Tory died, sacrificing herself for Darcy as she keeps foreshadowing. Soon, ideally.
I get the reason she had for rejecting the bond, but did she really HAVE to reject it anyway? She saw that her mother loved her evil father despite his flaws, why couldn’t she follow suit?!
Diego is 100% evil, I’m calling it.
If book 5 doesn’t mend my heartbreak then idk what I’m going to do

Xavier is the best character. Nobody else will compare. If he dies I’ll scream. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Bullying