Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

A Court This Cruel and Lovely by Stacia Stark

27 reviews

datskira's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Child death

katharina90's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

This was okay. The writing was pretty bad, the plot predictable, and the characters underdeveloped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Suicide attempt, and War

one_more_chapter96's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.25

Enjoyable fantasy romance with slightly different takes on the typical plot and tropes which was refreshing. Loved the two main characters slowly getting closer together over the book & enjoyed the side characters and family histories. Some good plot twists and a touch of spice. At times a little cliche but overall enjoyable! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Torture, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and War

gabs_parr's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

I really enjoyed this book and the concept of it and I’m excited for the rest of the series. I love the characters and how they’ve been developed and fleshed out so far. My only real criticism so far has been the actual world building and descriptions of what it means to be a hybrid… like what is a hybrid. WHO is a hybrid? How does one become a hybrid or how do you identify a hybrid? Are they a hybrid because one parent is fae and one is human? Or are they hybrid because both of their parents are hybrids? Or would both of those scenarios result in hybrid offspring? What is so special about being hybrid? I feel like I blacked out and totally missed every detail that had to do with hybrids and then came to and was supposed to know what was going on and I’ve been trying to play catch up ever since. There are some details with the King that are confusing as well but I won’t go into details to avoid spoilers. I wish this series was more popular so I could ask someone questions without spoiling the series for myself. I tried to go online for answers, but I couldn’t really find much. Overall, I’m hoping the world building will just start making more sense as book 2 goes on. But I loved the characters and their relationships. Excited to see how book 2 unfolds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

smartcookiesca's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault

marlenareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-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

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and War

avacyn731's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

druzyquartz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense slow-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

4.75

Were there some cliche plot points? Yes. BUT-

The way I loved the adventure and build up to a bigger plotline, and I really enjoyed the found family aspect with the "mercenaries". The FMC is intelligent and I love the heart of gold she has! I also really enjoy the magic she possesses, it's really unique compared to other fantasy FMCs I've read lately! 

A couple of reveals lined up to be a little too coincidental for me, but I think the enjoyment I experienced throughout the read made up for the lack of believability in some areas (and, well it's fantasy so it's not necessarily believable anyways). The twist with the MMC had me intrigued because while I somewhat expected it, I think part of me didn't want to at the same time. I'm very interested to see the resolution between FMC AND MMC, but I'm not looking forward to reading 500 pages to get there... lol. 

I will be continuing with this series and enjoying the different characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape, Vomit, and Death of parent

For fire injury: there are people executed by being burned alive For rape/sexual assault: there's implications of side characters being rapists, and there is an attempted sexual assault/rape + attempted murder of FMC towards the first half of the book

she is not assaulted and kills the guy

For murder: couple of different deaths by beheading, stabbing, pushed into a river, etc.

carol_marie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief