Reviews tagging 'War'

Sorrow and Starlight by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

13 reviews

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.75

I’m so confused.  This book dragged on, and almost went on my DNF list - which is extremely rare, and especially since I actually want to know how everything turns out for these characters.  

The story has been building and building over the first 7 books and then randomly in the last 10-15% of book 8, a bunch of loose ends get tied up, only for the whole story to unravel again in the last couple of chapters and leave us on a weird cliffhanger. Not only that, but the next two books in the series are apparently backtracks from different perspectives - the next one says it’s a retelling of the first book from the Heirs’ POV, and the currently final book in the series (book 10) says it’s a retelling from the POV of those that have passed.   So we’ll be left on this cliffhanger with no foreseeable ending through at least two more books before we can pick up and go again. 

The first few books really sucked me in, but the story is now spiraling wildly out of control with no ending in sight - pretty disappointed, as I’m now invested in this story through the first several books, but after book 8, I’m not sure I want to continue, despite still wanting to see how things turn out.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Self harm, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol, Gore, Violence, Confinement, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Excrement, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Fire/Fire injury

tguccione's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Genocide, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, War, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Murder, and Grief

luciiee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Confinement, Violence, Blood, Physical abuse, and Murder

juliette_95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Slavery, Blood, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual content, Death, War, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy and Death of parent

ells___'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Sexual content, and War

ac02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War, and Death

kismar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Violence, Self harm, Grief, Death, and Sexual content

christiansenmy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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: Murder, Death, Sexual content, Abandonment, Violence, War, and Toxic relationship

frankieclc's review against another edition

1.5

i cannot believe i just read a 1200 page FILLER BOOK like so much unnecessary plot please stop giving me point of views from characters i couldnt care less about i miss the good old days where it was just the main characters and god was this book mentally draining SO MUCH GRIEF 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Moderate: Body horror, War, Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, and Blood

lauralouise93's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

3.0

This book did not need to be over 1000 pages! Half of the book could of been erased without affecting the plot.
So many pov chapters from characters which I did not care about or remember from previous books.
Really disappointing but I have to continue because I love the main characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Sexual content, and War