Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

71 reviews

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

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, Death, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

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

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Abortion

freckles_13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

I want to adore this book but it was … okay.

Meyer is one of my fave authors so I’d hoped I’d love this, but I didn’t. It felt like the story took a while to get going yet the characters were progressing so quickly into relationships, even when they had met on 2 days out of 2 months.

The last 100 pages or so wee quite enjoyable in itself, quick and constantly leaving me wanting to know more. But the rest? I’m not quite sure.

No spoilers, but it has one of the tropes I dislike near the end so maybe perhaps that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I wanted to. 

I have mixed feelings about this one, but I do think I’ll buy the sequel to see what happens.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

taelights's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.0

At about 50% I was tempted to dnf this but I decided to unfortunately finish this. 

Serilda is such a boring, unlikable main character. I didn't care about her at all as she was a whining self-sabotaging character. She chooses to lie all the time and takes pleasure in doing so but then she gets herself in bad situations and complains how no one trusts her. Plus some things she lies about just cause me to roll my eyes because it's ridiculous she would even lie about them. Her actions often annoyed me and had me not caring about her at all. 

The romance was very boring. Insta love often annoys me especially. Then unnecessary unplanned pregnancy is literally the worst romance trope ever. But especially the fact that it was unplanned TEENAGE pregnancy. gross. 

Also this book dragged so much. It could have been half as long because there were so many unnecessary scenes. The fact that it's going to have a sequel is ridiculous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion

Teenage pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, accidental pregnancy

hgoode's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

I don't know where to place this book on the star spectrum.  I am completly torn in my rating. I feel like this could be a 5 star book just as easily as a 2 star book.  It felt very rushed and yet too long at 500 pages. I devoured it in one day and I'm craving more but I don't see myself ever rereading this book. Which is strange for me. I reread all favorites. It was really good but lacking at the same time. I'm putting four stars for now but I may change the rating in the future.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

miciahsreads's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Grief, and Pregnancy

pedanticangel's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Still sorting through my feelings.

i feel like the idea of this book is better than the story told. The pacing was confusing. I thought the story would be wrapped up by the end of the book and was really surprised once I got to the end. I'm curious how the second and third books are going to go. I'm not certain there is enough story for them.

On the positive side, I really liked the mythology incorporated. Meyers really did a good job on her research. It's refreshing to read a story and see mythological creatures I haven't seen before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Kidnapping, Abortion, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Torture, and Pregnancy

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

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

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.