Reviews tagging 'Death'

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

60 reviews

kirchnerkd's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexism, Racial slurs, War, and Racism

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Sexism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Gore, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexual violence, Grief, War, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Cursing

shesreadingagain_'s review

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

3.5

I feel like this book was a lot slower than the first book. It focused a lot more on the political aspects of the series and I feel that a lot of the book was setting up book three. It has gotten me amped up for book three and I can’t wait to jump into it next! Excited to see how Rebecca is going to wrap up this series! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, War, and Death of parent

sonias's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

morgancvtherine's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Torture, Child abuse, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

rlgreen91's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

I guess after finishing Black Sun, Roanhorse said, you know what, let me run that back.  My goodness - another novel that I knew I would enjoy going in that wildly exceeded my expectations.  This was a jam-packed adventure full of intrigue and plotting, a reminder that history shapes familial and societal drama, and some nice fight scenes too.  It was also nice that a major plot point of the book and series ties in with our own upcoming celestial event, although I hope ours doesn't mimic the plot.  

I'm looking forward to what the final book will bring, especially since there's still so many plotlines to wrap up!  I already know I'll be in somebody's bookstore on the release date to purchase my copy.  I can't wait to dive into this rich world again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Body horror

Moderate: Alcoholism and Injury/Injury detail

avacadosocks's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Sexual content

salemander's review

5.0

god i love a well made fantasy world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Grief, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Confinement, Death, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

As a second book in a trilogy, Fevered Star does a lot of the things that middle books do - a lot of traveling back and forth as characters have to get to new places and discover new backstory, small expansions in the magic system, moments that begin to deepen the world building and conflict, etc. It felt less intentional than the first book, but likely just because we are no longer counting down toward a specific event, and have to navigate the "after." I loved the symmetry of the starting and ending action on sun rock and our expanded understanding of the gods and god powers. 

There were a few POVs I wanted more of, but I ultimately understand why we had the characters we did in this installment and appreciate where we ended and where we will likely go from here.

Again, the full-cast audio production is excellent and I highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, Medical trauma, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Some pretty gross eyeball moments!

elise_barnhill's review

adventurous dark funny inspiring tense 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? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death