Reviews tagging 'Death'

Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel by Leigh Bardugo

69 reviews

lindsayflor_95's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Genocide, and Self harm

sadie_g's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

lindasoderlundd's review

adventurous informative mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Blood, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

annick's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.75

Excellent art by Dani Pendergast. 

I enjoyed this as a short story. The twists were good. And highlight the Darkling isn’t villian or hero. He  is the product of circumstance and choices 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Physical abuse

abelh's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Death, Genocide, Grief, War, Child death, Self harm, Torture, Blood, and Bullying

benchythebanana's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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

5.0

Breathtaking. The art is absolutely gorgeous. Leigh chose the best possible artist for this adaptation. It just fits the story so well! This was an amazing origin story for the Darkling and really makes us question if he's a villain or a hero. The story was absolutely HEARTBREAKING and made me feel a lottttt of complex emotions. This was such an outstanding adaptation and I loved how the story developed from the original short! I honestly think this was a 6/5 book it was just that good. This definitely is my favorite graphic novel coming from someone who's read a huge amount of graphic novels in my time. GO READ THIS!!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Animal death

houseofjules's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child death, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Murder

cclift1114's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

The artwork in this book was stunning and Leigh Bardugo’s storytelling of some of the Darkling’s origin story made me want to reread the whole Grishaverse again.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal death, Violence, and Murder

sissizc's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

folkofthebook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

a short but satisfying prequel to the shadow and bone series.
i found this really helped make aleksander a more complex, sympathetic character, and this story helps gives readers a better sense of the kind of life the grisha were living before he became the darkling. the art and coloring was excellent as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder, and Violence