Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Shadow Princess by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

5 reviews

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

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

_savannahreads_'s review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

psydneigh's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Holy shit. This book hurts.

Spoiler

I hope there is a way to reverse being star crossed because wtf

I don’t understand Tory’s anger. I get that she is angry but to that degree it just feels unreasonable. I hope the next book gets happier, damn.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, and Grief

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