Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Fable, by Adrienne Young

28 reviews

theteamsreader's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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

A definite favourite.  Such an incredibly light, but engaging read with a promise of more to come.  All characters were interesting and fun to read about and explore, and the actual plot and setting itself felt like a strong breath of air in terms of a subgenre like this.  Recommend to anyone into pirate and trader books, with hunts for missing treasure, escapes from islands, battles on and off seas, big plot twists, and characters to fall in love with entirely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, Body horror, Cursing, and Vomit

lottsofplots's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death and Grief

marareading's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.75

The end makes up for the middle. The beginning starts off very interesting as we find out Fable was abandoned on an island after a shipwreck with her parents in which her mother died. Her father, Saint, was the captian. She has been trying to fight her way off this island of theives for years so she can find her way back to him and confront him.

The premise is amazing. As I mentioned the middle was very slow for me. The end made up for it a bit. It was slightly predictable in some of the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Grief

matheo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional

• 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: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-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

3.5

Liked the character development, characters themselves, the dredging aspect, the bonds between the characters.

Disliked lack of fantasy, its slow pace—took more than half of the book to get to the action after explaining the setting, rules and introducing characters, little character exploration despite character development, the insta  love between the mc and her love interest, the ending, how the author told most of the events rather than shown—I don’t like that pov :/ 

This is the instance where I’d prefer a longer book bc there’s so much potential for this book. But I will try the sequel and maybe the side characters books bc I’m curious about them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Death, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Medical content, Torture, Self harm, Stalking, Classism, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Murder, Blood, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Child death, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

faitherslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Grief, and Murder

anaguana's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Grief, and Murder

itssophielong's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Grief

morganphoenix's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Minor: Grief and Death of parent