Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Lady of Darkness by Melissa K. Roehrich

19 reviews

emily_holden's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Torture

Minor: Child death, Death of parent

raedynfae's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racism

karamoore1702's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Somewhat predictable, but overall an enjoyable read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, War

labxtch's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Immersive world building, fun characters, and a thick plot. Hot guys, secret nights in hidden areas, the tension.. Yeah this was a nail biter, edge-of-the-seat kind of book, and I LOVED it. 

The last 50 pages of this book really got me raging, but I kept reminding myself it’s the first book in a five book series so.. 

To the next book!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Rape, Violence, Blood

taywinger's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is confusing for me to try to rate. I almost DNF’d in the beginning because I didn’t love the writing style. It felt pretty forced and the dialogue was very stilted and awkward. But the storyline eventually became intriguing enough that I kept going. However, most of the “twists” were very obvious, which made it all the more infuriating that Scarlett acted like her world was falling apart every time she found out a new piece of information. Truthfully, I just found her to be a very annoying, frustrating main character who overreacted to all the info Sorin kept from her. Like I get it, it sucks he didn’t tell you, but like you also actively avoided the conversation so what was he supposed to do?? And then you have to throw it in his face that he “broke” you??? I just hated it and it just happened too many times throughout the book. And the “big reveal” at the end of the book was perhaps the most guessable of all of them, which again, made her reaction especially annoying and the ending kind of anticlimactic. With that being said, it was intriguing enough that I do want to keep going with the series. It feels like a mix of Throne of Glass and From Blood and Ash. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Death of parent

juliamallory's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Rape

cityofstarlight5610's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder

mrs_smith_19's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous fast-paced

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This first book in the series is very similar to the Throne of glass series. If you are a lover of SJM or JLA fantasy you will no doubt enjoy this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Child death

terra_locher's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence