Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

72 reviews

booksandstardust's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

bookish_hollyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Blood

teabrewer's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

Most of the book was mediocre and cliché (not like the previous book where tropes are used to inhence the story but in the lazy sense, like the fourth season of a tv show that should have ended already.) Some scenes were good and some dialogue lines get my attention but generally I just kept asking myself why Jacks personality was so inconsistent and

why every character just ignored that Evangeline was cheating on her husband.

From the middle to the end the writting started to improve but just at the very end that I actually felt like I wanted to read this book. But I did love the end.

I tend to not like stories where vampires are too predominant but in this book I understand their role and why they were nescessary. I loved the detail of the chapter numbers repeating after Jacks went back in time, the little moment where Evangeline explained normal communication to Jack and the revelation of what was in the other side of the arch. The very final scene was amazingly written, horrifyingly symbolic, I loved it.

To be transparent, I'm reading the next book mostly because the cover is beautiful and I did really like the first one.
Ps:

I didn't like what the author did with Luc in this book. He is absent of any motivation, personality or brain cells, and not like a classic himbo, but like the most offesive definition of a non-character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

anni_swanilda's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, Blood, Confinement, Violence, Torture, and Death

Minor: Death of parent

irb0red's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood

mad_ds's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Death and Violence

rexpostfacto's review

5.0

Okay slayyyyy

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Blood, and Death

zoeelora's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Alcohol, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

deluna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Grief, Blood, Gaslighting, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Body horror, and Confinement

kal517's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment