Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Cursed by Marissa Meyer

64 reviews

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.25

I adored the children and I am glad for the ending but the story was so slow paced and I found the pregnancy stuff kind of ick 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Kidnapping, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Blood, and Death of parent

luna24601_'s review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

mykday's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Child death

kymopolaya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This dragged towards the end and I found it quite slow in parts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

mysterious_and_spooky's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Animal cruelty

amyvbxx's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.0

This book was better than gilded. Although I enjoyed guilded I thought sometimes it left holes and was dragged through plot points that maybe didn't pay off. 
I found this book to have a much better pay off and was more fast paced while still remaining readable. 
My main issue is the height of the drama happens very late into the book and I feel as though it spends a lot of time explaining unimportant aspects and then doesn't let the dust settle later in the story.

the Rumpelstiltskin twist was a little bit too on the nose to be dumped in right at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Blood

Minor: War

iothemoon's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Animal cruelty, Gore, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

jla's review

dark emotional funny sad 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? No

5.0

This was really fast and engrossing. This retelling was really well done.   I was surprised that the first 20% was kind of comedic.   Then the book got a bit sad and dark in the last 10%.

I got pretty tired of Serilda yelling ,"Wait! Stop! " How many times was the Erlking going to fall for that? I was also a bit disappointed that he wasn't redeemed. I was kind of rooting for him, but that's probably a toxic trait of mine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

passionatereader78's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

This book is well written. I liked the overall story. I was frustrating at times because the main character has all of the information in front of her but can't comprehend it. I loved the guilded prince, the princess, the forest folk, and the ghosts. The dark castle was spooky and creepy with the different creatures.  Serilda is now cursed with the guilded prince. They are trying to find a way to break the curse and set everyone free.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Torture, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Confinement, Slavery, Violence, Animal death, Murder, and Toxic relationship

katewheels13's review

dark sad medium-paced

2.0

I actually dnfed this book around 300 pages. It dragged on and it felt like I was just reading a series of psychological torture throughout. It just wasn’t enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Emotional abuse