Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty

40 reviews

_forestofpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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

5.0

Despite this sequel having far less action than the first book, I loved it even more. I was enthralled by the continuation of the insane final chapters of book 1 and then the time jump in book 2. The author leaned heavily on the themes she touched on in book 1 and went hard on the politics and war. In my opinion, this was handled so well and was always engaging to read.

There was never a time where I felt like the author was trying to tell me how to feel and instead had these incredibly complex characters and morals and different wills and beliefs all mixed up, and it was realistic and frustrating and compelling at every turn. I was frequently yelling at the pages, these characters who I like so much. 

The last 200 pages took me for a ride and had me constantly tense and worried for everyone. I had no idea what would happen. Exhilarating and wild ending. I cannot wait to pick up the third and final book.

Nahri finally did what I wanted and made her own choices! She seems much more matured and cautious. I also grew to love several other characters I didn't like or just didnt understand in the first book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Racism, Child death, Blood, and Racial slurs

Minor: Slavery and Body horror

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Classism

devilavo96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Child death

mmelibertine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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

4.5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Blood

jenn_amanda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Genocide, Blood, Child death, Slavery, Violence, War, Racism, Alcoholism, Grief, Murder, Torture, Classism, Death, and Hate crime

bookswithcuppatea's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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

4.75

A fascinating sequel to The City of Brass, this book quickly moves forward five years from the events of the previous book. Characters have matured, relationships are more complex, and the city of Daevabad is not always a balanced, safe place to be. 
The plot builds to a tense climax, and sets up new problems to be dealt with (hopefully!) in the next book. Which I look forward to reading!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Child death

Minor: Self harm

madison_mls's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

Really strong sequel to the first book! The last 40% had me GAGGED!! The world and character building is developed further in this book in a way that is done really well without any heavy info dumping. Plus it’s all paced so incredibly well. Can’t wait to read the third and final installment!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Medical content, Xenophobia, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Murder, and Religious bigotry

mariazen's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Classism

Minor: Child death

meg_leigh's review against another edition

2.0

I so enjoyed this author's Adventures book, and The City of Bronze. But this one was just disappointing.

Every. Single. Character. Is so deeply selfish and unlikeable. And the level of violence against children, the sheer number of children dying, borders on trauma porn.

Half the characters' choices make no sense or have any consistency from page to page. 

I already bought the third book, such was my excitement, so I'll read it and hope this installment was just an unfortunate misstep. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, and Torture

Moderate: Medical trauma and Sexual violence

boba_n_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

This was a wonderfully magical continuation of the Daevebad Trilogy. 

My one criticism was the pacing seemed to be quite slow in the beginning and quite fast-paced at the end. But though it started out a little slow, I understand where Chakraborty was going with the placement of each character and where they ended up when the book was over. The last 100 pages takes the reader on a journey at break-neck speed! It drew me in so fully that I couldn't stop reading. 

I absolutely loved the second installment in this trilogy. It was a delight to learn more about the different tribes, the history of Daevebad, the true story of the marid, and the ifrit. I can't wait to see how it all plays out in the final book, but I'm also going to be quite sad to leave this world as it has me enraptured.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Alcoholism, and Death of parent