Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

128 reviews

bubblebearcj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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 death, Death, and Death of parent

luarna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent and Murder

Pregnancy trope

agenderberry335's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

This is book is sooo good!!! I can’t describe how exactly, but everything in it just works, and I couldn’t put it down. Marissa Meyer is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

bookstakenzie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

4.5/5 stars! Great for readers who enjoyed Heartless.

This retelling has added mythical and fantastical features to it that make it it's own story apart from the short classic we know. While the beginning is slow, I found my self very engaged when the plot started to pick up. There were many extra characters that didn't have to be there, but they brought the story padding and fleshes out the world. And while the twists in the book were easy to see coming, they were still earned by the characterization. I would highly recommend, especially if you enjoyed Heartless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt and Animal cruelty

viridis'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Alright, let's start with the oh so annoying fact that this book ends on a cliffhanger. And not a minor one, it's not like we got some sort of closure. This just feels like it should have been one big book and it got split into two.
Now to the characters. 
The main one is Serilda who's and okey character but sometimes she pisses me off by what she does, cause she doesn't tell people any information nor she asks them anything most of the time. 
The outcome of this is an extremely slow paced book because we basically don't know anything about anything..
And there's one more thing. This book is pretty predictable, except when you want it to be. For example I was not expecting it to get so brutal in the end. The vibes are more like fairytale, calm, forest creatures but the book is a lot darker than that. 
Nevertheless I liked the book, it's interesting enough and you do want to know the answers, it just gets tedious at times.. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Child death

crashedandburned's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Gore, and Slavery

caroline_peacock's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual content

toffeefuchs's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death of parent

Moderate: Murder, Gore, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Pregnancy and Vomit

stacyhowe13's review

dark mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

2.5

I just felt like that was A LOT of build up and the ending is just a big cliffhanger. If you read this you just plan on reading the second one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, and Murder

faerylullaby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Child death, Suicide, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

Minor: Sexual content