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cailean_renard's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood and Murder
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Death of parent, Violence, and Death
gillian_aftanas's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Alcohol and Animal death
tashtasher's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Death of parent and Gore
alishaabrahamsreads's review
3.5
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual content, Gore, and Grief
gremlyn_w_a_hat's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death, Blood, Grief, and Gore
snowsnakes's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Definitely a favourite sub-genre of mine: it combines two of my favourite things (1) art and (2) folktales lol how can I not love it?
Why just three stars, then? I wanted more detail! My heart felt for the characters and the story ended before I could come to terms with what had transpired. I often feel this way after reading graphic novels... I just wanted to know more. See more. But I do appreciate the open(ish) ending.
Be warned, it was definitely a darker YA; the story tends to focus on the flaws of the main characters, and how they lose themselves (and each other) to these flaws. Personally, I feel like better communication, and regular therapy to work through emotions, would have benefited everyone and likely prevented the book's worst-case-scenarios. But then we wouldn't have a story, I guess. And, really, folktales are meant to make the readers/listeners reflect. So, in the end, it did its job well.
TW: abuse, murder, death, gore.
Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, and Grief
Minor: Toxic relationship
pastel_princess's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Moderate: Sexual content and Murder
Minor: Blood
bitterseason's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.25
Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, and Infidelity
Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent and Animal cruelty
krys_kilz's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
With all that said, I still really enjoyed the retelling of the myth and am now curious to read some of the original versions if I can find them in English. The story was dark, but I felt that was necessary since it's moral, in this adaptation at least, was about the violence necessary to maintain empire and how the pursuit of power over others will destroy you and those you love in the end.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, and Death of parent
Moderate: Sexual content and Blood
aardwyrm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Dementia, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, and Death