Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

105 reviews

theresamothinmyroom's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, and War

caitlin_123a's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Grief

elskede's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

tspice24's review

emotional mysterious 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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Torture, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

atamano's review against another edition

dark medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

leila_reads_too_much's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

skillyillian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

The only thing I didn't love was how insta-lovey it felt, but considering the situations that they were in when they met, well. It makes sense they'd cling to any form of escape. I did enjoy the ending, and the redemption of someone who starts the book off as a shitty miserable person was very good. I fucking loved this book and if you have the chance then you NEED to go for the audiobook, the narrator did such a wildly phenomenal job. Without a doubt the best audiobook I've ever heard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

rose_celeste's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I've never read anything of Leigh Bardugo before and I'd say this is a good start. 

I cannot say I "loved" the characters. They were all flawed beings, ugly and beautiful. I was intrigued, enthralled perhaps with their desires and ambitions. But I could not love them, which was a good thing. If I had loved then, I would have been disappointed by the ending. I would've cried abput the lack of romance, rainbows and fluffy ever afters. Here, I could enjoy the ending and take it as it was. Eternal and ephemeral as the miracles remembered.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Torture

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Misogyny

clrouse's review

medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Infertility, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death of parent, and Classism

lefay_'s review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death and Death of parent