Reviews tagging 'War'

Gilded by Marissa Meyer

4 reviews

hermioneinravenclaw's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, Murder, Violence, War, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, Blood, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Sexual content and Pregnancy

lalabeths's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

4.0

❤️ Love ❤️
- Marissa Meyer 
- retelling of folklore in new way
- gruesome / dark nature of Grimm tales is kept 
- writing style 
- can’t wait to read the next 

🍅 Meh 🍅
- could predict parts of the book pretty easily
- the romance aspect felt very sped up 
- pacing was ok

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide, War, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Abandonment

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Death of parent, Child death, Animal death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Gore

Moderate: Slavery, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, War, and Sexual content

heytherekaity's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

HELLO YES THIS WAS WONDERFUL AND FANTASTIC AND somehow I missed that it's a series?????????


Absolutely LOVED it, but was very taken aback when I got to the end and realized.... the story isn't over.

My love of fairy tale retellings is back and I am so happy that this book was perfect!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, and Vomit