Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Strange Hymn by Laura Thalassa

24 reviews

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, Gore, Grief, Cursing, Death of parent, Abandonment, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Stalking, Child abuse, Classism, Violence, Suicide attempt, Child death, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Rape, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, and War

cmcdonnell2014's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Blood, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Kidnapping

Minor: Torture, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Death, War, Cursing, Gore, and Emotional abuse

bangiebangs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-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? Yes

3.5

Eeeeh... good but not great. It was a little harder to stick with this one somehow, it felt a little slow/tedious in places. I think the pacing here could have been better. 
That all said, I read it pretty quickly and enjoyed it, for the most part. Not loving the "sassy Black friend" here (though Temper is fire!), but oh well. We get some more Des, which is great, and the chemistry between these two is still great. The spice here is a bit secondary (3/5), but overall good story. Led me to read on, so I think if you liked the first one, you'll like this one. I am, however, hoping that the final book will pick up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Slavery, Physical abuse, Violence, and Sexual content

reads_all_the_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

Please check trigger warnings before starting this series. It’s good.. but there are things that could be triggering 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Slavery, and Rape

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Slavery, and War

Minor: Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, and Classism

heybethrenee's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

3.5

This was pretty good! The middle was a little slow but things really picked up by the end! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Gore, Physical abuse, Body horror, Classism, Death, Kidnapping, and Slavery

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Rape

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

I’m so excited this book took place in the other world. However it wasn’t all sexy time with Dez and now I’m left with more questions than answers. I’m hooked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Stalking, and Racism

Moderate: Child death and Rape

Minor: Abortion

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Slavery, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

Where some second books have the dreaded second book syndrome (aka they’re just filler), A Strange Hymn managed to avoid it. The development of both plot and characters is smooth and rather impressive.

I truly enjoyed the reintroduction to Temperance. Other than the fade to black spicy scenes,

it is an excellent middle book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol and Rape