Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Shadow Princess by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

6 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

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

lotte5322's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Bullying, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

elenamarmiroli's review

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.25

Ribadisco quello che ho detto nella recensione del volume precedente: questa serie è addicting. 
Ho divorato anche questo libro nell'arco di una giornata e mezzo e non ho rimpianti.

Adoro vedere le relazioni tra i protagonisti evolvere e cambiare, le protagoniste crescere sia a livello psicologico, che a livello di poteri e controllo di essi e le interazioni tra Max e Geraldine... Semplicemente perfette. Non vedo l'ora di poter leggere di una

Spoiler

loro possibile relazione amorosa

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La conclusione di questo opera finisce sempre con il lasciare il lettore in sospeso e, per quanto comprensibile, ho odiato la decisione compiuta da

Spoiler

Tory

nel finale.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

folkofthebook's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

ugh the FEELS !!! ok well someone in a review somewhere totally spoilt one of the big twists for me, so DON'T read thru too many like I did lol. Definitely took the surprise out and colored my reading experience differently than I expect other readers'. 
That being said, this book has it all. Great laughs (Geraldine & Tyler, gotta love 'em), forbidden romance (Blue & Lance, see more Darius & Tory action), more mysterious clues, and now we start to explore more of the Shadow realm and its magic. 
A lot of readers seem to dislike Tory in this one - to be fair, she is VERY stubborn, but I can see where she's coming from. Plus, you can't expect to write characters who don't have flaws and figure everything out and make all the right decisions, what kind of series will you have? Nothing it'll be three pages and done. Conflict, conflict, conflict!!
Can we talk about how much I fell in love with Darcy & Orion? Like.. student-teacher, older man issues aside LOL but really their love feels so pure and beautiful... ugh it hurts.
I do have many questions (I wanted more info from the Palace!!!) and the ending is the BIGGEST, WORST cliffhanger YET of the series so you know what that means... Gotta start #5 as soon as I finished writing this review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Violence