Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

14 reviews

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Death of parent, Child death, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Gore

Moderate: Slavery, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, War, and Sexual content

gracecrandall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cannibalism, Murder, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Suicide, Grief, Gore, Child death, Abandonment, Abortion, Pregnancy, Body horror, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Slavery, Cannibalism, and Abortion

This is a fairy tale in the Grimm brothers vein - there are graphic descriptions of murder (including one mass murder), gruesome deaths of children, flesh-eating human zombies (nachzehrer), dangerous magical creatures, one threatened abortion (not carried out), and a forced marriage.

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-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? No

4.0

 It took me about a hundred pages to really get into the story, but then it was very absorbing. This was the kind of story I hope for when I start a book, that pulls me in and makes me keep reading without checking how many pages are left in the book. And it even explored the nature of story itself a bit, which gave it a bit of depth I quite enjoyed. 

 My frustrations with the book, which kept it from quite being a five star read, were mostly with the author's worldview. Most of the magic fits into a made up, fantasy world feel that I'm fine with, but one short part of the story involves the good side using magic that both has a more 'real world' flavor, and plays with the line of of what would normally be portrayed as 'dark' magic. I also felt a lack of characters who appreciated both hard work AND stories--that shouldn't have to be an either/or. And there's a lesbian side romance shoehorned into the story. 

 I also didn't realize going in that there's a book two, which may well be my own fault, but definitely made the cliffhanger ending feel abrupt!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, and Torture