Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski

3 reviews

thedarkfields's review

emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Grief, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Animal death, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

Colonisation, war, and slavery are main themes in this series. This book also includes a great deal of manipulation, emotional/physical abuse, some gaslighting, and off-page references to terrible things

(this includes brief references to killing a dog, repeated mentions of a murder made to look like a suicide, and a decent word count spent discussing a war tactic leading to starvation and genocide)

. It's dark.

There's one scene (fairly early on in the book) during which someone is briefly but brutally tortured in explicit detail. Can be skipped without missing plot. There are other brief references to torture but none I can recall that are explicit.

ajboyd_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Classism

gabbygarcia's review

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, and Death of parent