Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

41 reviews

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Grief, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Cannibalism, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Abandonment, Suicide, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty, Police brutality, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Body horror, Animal death, Body shaming, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

introverted_reads's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

holly blacks psychologically unwell emo boys have got to be one of my favourite genders

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Death of parent, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Excrement, Confinement, Slavery, Mental illness, and Cursing

yami_yaki's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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? No

3.0

No spoilers! With a very strong FMC, and a lovely plot completely based on vampires, the setting is dark and mystical and was a really interesting read. However, I would not say it was ground breaking. It is increasingly hard to create a book that revolves around vampires without it being cringey, and I have to say that Holly handled it very well! I wasn't particularly enamoured with any of the characters though, I had no spark or major connection with any of the cast. The whole idea of coldtowns was just so interesting to me though, and although it's been a while since I read, I can whole heartedly say that I reccomend you give it a try.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Violence

A lot of content regarding mass mistreatment.

leila_reads_too_much's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Gore, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body horror, Cannibalism, and Alcoholism

breadwitchery's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Suicide

Minor: Vomit, Misogyny, Infidelity, Alcohol, Self harm, and Gun violence

psydneigh's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Absolutely loved this book! Tana is a badass FMC and I ate it up! Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Suicide

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Murder, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death, and Death of parent

kels_18's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Confinement, Self harm, Death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism

risten's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Blood, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Torture

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

mmefish's review against another edition

I wanted to love it – since I enjoy Holly Black’s work and love vampires – but this book is overly descriptive, full of cringey phrases and just boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood