Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Crier's War by Nina Varela

76 reviews

elislittlelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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

4.5

At first, this book was quite hard to get into, so it took me a while. But it was worth it! Really enjoyed the story and the characters! They were just so sweet together, I really look forward to reading the second book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and War

willow_the_wisp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Grief, Police brutality, Murder, and Violence

elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.5

Fantasy at it’s finest - Crier’s War is pure queer magic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Infertility, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: War

Minor: Grief

micaelacccc's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder and Death of parent

4pmbookstacker's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

Very world-building based. It would be great if you're really into in-depth fantasy worlds, but that's not really my thing. Some parts move really fast while others move very slowly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

raypaws's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-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: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Sexual content

raynearchv's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, War, Murder, and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

anni_swanilda's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Slavery, Blood, Classism, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Drug use

msrsmoony's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

PLEASE READ THIS!! 
This is seriously my favorite book that I've ever read. The fantasy, the slow-burn romance, it was perfect. It always felt like there was something happening so it wasn't boring but it also wasn't too much. I absolutely love the characters and in my opinion they had a lot of depth to their character. And the plot?? Everything was a bit confusing at first but once you know what everything is its sooo good omg. And when i say this is a slow burn, I mean it. BUT OMG. they got me giggling and kicking my feet they're so cute 😭, and I feel like this book wasn't romance-centric and that a major part of this was the plot, but that made the romance seem even more special in my opinion. also I hope Kinok will suffer a long painful death in the next book ❤️
This book was a little bit predictable, but you would only know things just before it happened (and most times I rlly didn't expect it to happen tbh). I actually really enjoyed the way that you could sometimes predict what was going to happen, because it felt like you where slowly connecting the dots yourself and learning everything, y'know what I mean? 

And Crier going to the midwifery to get the passion pillar out of her? And the ending?? I was feeling what Crier felt, the betrayal?? Kinok showed Crier fake blueprints with five pillars, just to manipulate her

 

Anyways, please just read this and give this a try because it's so good (and it's sapphic so what other reasons would you need?). It might take a while for you to really get into it and understand everything, but once you do it's absolutely worth it!! 💟

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: War, Death of parent, and Violence