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Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake

3 reviews

mia_luvsreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Death of parent, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

esme_may's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I adored this! I'm so glad I decided to finish this series because it was so much better than the last one. An incredible end to the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Death, Gore, Blood, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Murder, Self harm, Xenophobia, Confinement, Grief, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty and Sexual content

emily_mh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

3.75

The best way to sum up my feelings about this book (and this series as a whole, really) is that nothing feels developed enough. It's like a cake. The core elements - the flour, sugar, eggs, etc. - are there, and they're good, but it wasn't put in the oven long enough so everything about it seems underbaked. Like you're about to sneeze and you know it's gonna be a good one, but it never comes. Or a 2D drawing that was meant to be a 3D rendering. 

In terms of specifics, the ending action was pretty good.

Spoiler

Although the most important chapter in the whole book, where Katherine changes allegiance and Mirabella dies, came across as a sketch or an outline, so didn't feel like the momentous event that it was. Mira dying at this point before she could really made an impact also just turned her into a non-character for me.

But apart from that, I don't have much else to say. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, and Self harm

Moderate: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Ableism, Child abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Torture, and Body horror

Minor: Child death, Grief, Alcohol, Sexual content, Infertility, Vomit, Confinement, Medical content, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Pregnancy

Illness, loss of a loved one