Reviews tagging 'Grief'

La Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

38 reviews

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, Misogyny, Racism, Confinement, Death of parent, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Infidelity, Cursing, and Pregnancy

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Racism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Gore, Alcohol, War, Violence, and Body horror

Minor: Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Vomit, Animal death, and Abortion

brunonadamas's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, and Cursing

hayy6747's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent

honeywine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

This book is definitely vibes, though I struggled to get into it until around the halfway mart. The historical part of the historical fiction was pretty neat and enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Abortion

Moderate: Rape, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Grief, and Domestic abuse

macknificent's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

This story had great bones but it just didn't work for me. 

I did find myself fully immersed in the scary scenes, to the point that I could only read this in daylight. Unfortunately, I wasn't much interested in the rest. Neither the mystery, nor the romance were compelling and sometimes it felt like the author didn't really know her characters. The horror/magic didn't seem to have any rules either, which made the ending a bit anticlimactic.

This was a debut novel so I'm willing to try this author again in the future.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Death, Classism, Colonisation, Murder, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, and Sexual assault

rbash2391's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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 death, Classism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Death, Religious bigotry, Blood, Cursing, Colonisation, Grief, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Self harm, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Infidelity, Rape, and Abortion

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Confinement

podanotherjessi's review against another edition

hopeful 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? No

4.5

I enjoyed almost everything in this book. It's genuinely scary at parts, and I had chills for a big portion of the book. At times, it shifts focus to a romantic subplot which was sometimes welcome and other times tedious, but overall a good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Grief

aklovekorn's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Gaslighting, Murder, Racism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Grief

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Alcoholism, Abortion, Alcohol, Sexual violence, and Rape