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emmjay's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Animal death, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Vomit
toodrew's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Sure that existed in Nevernight, but it wasn't the only thing in Nevernight. I enjoyed the world-building and the themes more. But in this one, at least in my mind, it lost a lot of it's narrative purpose. It multiplied the problems of the first.
Kristoff doesn't write the queer couple like an actual couple, but a fetish. Nevernight had this problem too. In a brief scene where Mia kisses Ashlynn. Her love-interest responds with anger and. . . . nah just kidding. He talks about how hot it is because remember women loving women relationships only exist to please men. A woman can't be a threat to a hetero relationship. But this was pretty brief. His problem with writing women loving women relationships is so much worse in this one because he decided to bring it to the forefront. Mia doesn't even question if she's bi until MONTHS LITERAL MONTHS after she had a threesome with a woman. Like what?
Look the world really doesn't need any more terrible queer representation. If you can't write a queer character than just don't.
There were other problems. Character Development is not there.
I liked the writing-style and the tone but this one really crashed and burned.
Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Blood, Child death, and Death
laceydaisy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, and Slavery
Moderate: Child abuse, Animal death, and Child death
scribblesandsuch's review
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Child death, Violence, Slavery, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Domestic abuse
lettigirl101's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Drug use, Alcohol, Vomit, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Gore, Cursing, Child death, Body horror, Murder, Slavery, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Medical content, Excrement, Animal death, Death of parent, and Death
madison1's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, and Slavery
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death
bluejayreads's review
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Gore, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Torture and Sexual content
Needles (protagonist is forced to get a tattoo) in one sceneoliverreeds's review
- 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
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Slavery, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Murder
thelizzielibrary's review
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
- The pacing! I hate books that bog me down in unnecessary explanations, and with the long timeline in this book, I expected to be frustrated with the pacing, but it was perfect.
- Those character arcs though. For real. I didn't know who was good or bad because everyone was morally grey, which is one of my favorite techniques in books, even when it drives me nuts.
- The narration of the book. Sometimes it was formed to trick the reader, and it was so subtle and well done!
- Obviously the world building is
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and Vomit