Reviews tagging 'Death'

King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard

44 reviews

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

King’s cage was definitely a better read than Glass Sword, but does not quite add up to Red Queen. Mare Barrow is consistently an unlikable character focused primarily on herself the majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

emmaopaline's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

readwithde'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? It's complicated

4.25

I really enjoyed this book. Having the characters split gave them some extra time for progression (both character and plot).

While I get why Mare would be kept prisoner for so long, I would have preferred more interactions with the court, if not with Maven.

Even bringing in Evangeline's POV chapters earlier would have helped that section fill out a bit more, even if it tipped her family's hand a bit.

Cameron was an interesting POV for the Scarlet Guard/red side of things, which again left much of the political machinations off the page, but at least gave the basics. Even Kilorn would have been a better choice, in my opinion. 

I feel like the final third of the book dragged a bit, at least up until the climax,

the second battle at Corvium.

It just felt like the pacing was off after

Mare was rescued by the Scarlet Guard.

I think there was too much build up in the beginning that didn't leave enough room for the three bigger battles.

Finally,

I know we should want Cal to choose Mare, but I don't think he's wrong to ask Mare to choose him instead. I'm hoping there is a way for compromise in the final book, but I'm happy that each of them are actually dealing with what they want instead of throwing away their convictions, training, or lives.

Overall, this was a strong sequel, and I was surprised by a few things; I'm very excited to read the final book and the short stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

readwithzoe_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

trulydevious's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

charhollyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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

3.25

A better book than the first two in my opinion.
This book both develops the world, plot and characters in much more depth. We see a different side to unexpected characters which I really liked and didn’t expect, to the extent of appreciating their perspective and even liking them as much as the main characters. 

what I really did not enjoy reading was the last 30 or so pages. The last two chapters and the plot twist felt like a backtrack of character arc and a little unlike Cal’s growth and personality. Although I saw the situation in his eyes, he only wants to save and transform his brother and kingdom; I thought he had changed more than that, as it was seemingly written. A disappointing end which I hope will be redeemed in the final book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and War

slythormione's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

3.25

Worst book in the series and the ugliest cover

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, and Kidnapping

she finally gets out in like chapter 18 or something if you want to know

escapismforlife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-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

3.25

 If I'm being nice about it I would have to say Mare Barrow  is not the brightest  main character.  She is flawed but knows it and even with  a cool power that makes her different gets captured somehow. 

That said I think I'm  done with this series because  both her and Evangeline are getting railroaded  over. And I don't  care enough  to read War Storm for now to see how everything  ends for them. 

 But I did enjoy the megatrons, and differen new characters who had the same power as Mare.  Not to mention  howsilver Evangelin  mperspective. It made this book more interesting  and brought a lot more complexity  to see the bad peoples side. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Sexism

jasmine_0206's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-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

4.75

This one is soooo much better than the Glass Sword. It is crazy of the development of all the characters. It started off really slow but after that it got a lot better and the different pov’s made the story of all the characters a lot better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Death, Blood, and Death of parent

caitlink's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Torture, Violence, and Blood