Reviews tagging 'Death'

Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat

51 reviews

lilholmn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, and Violence

kiseao's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Trafficking, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

jjnich's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

aeori's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Moderate: Pedophilia

diana_raquel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.75

“To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.”

As serialized books go, there's something called "second-book syndrome", wherein a writer fails to write a second book that will live up to the first one.  Well, this book doesn't suffer from this syndrome. It was better than the first, even. This book is the one that shows that the arguments used for criticizing in a negative way the first fell apart (I addressed these arguments in my review of Captive Prince). The relationship between the main characters starts to be a more equal one and the plot continues to be interesting as the first one, with a well-structured structure and plot twists that fall into place at the right moment. 

This is truly one of my favorite series! I completely recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Pregnancy

cait's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

harmonique's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Rape

dead_colonel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and War

Minor: Child death, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Murder

bugcollector's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Overall this book is way better than the 1st in character development and trying to make us sympathetic towards the mc, but Laurent I didn't forget nor forgive what you did 😀😀😀
When he's mean to me, but he's mean   TO ME😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and War

sophie42's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Vomit