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doegirlreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Murder
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Alcohol
summerspence's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Suicide attempt and Murder
Minor: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism
emilylovesgoodbooks's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse and Physical abuse
Moderate: Death and Murder
lucyfette's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
would definitely recommend, but it just takes a while before it gets properly into it. be patient!
Graphic: Child abuse and Physical abuse
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Addiction, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol
definitely not a triggering read but there are some things u wanna look out for! like murder, blood, abuse, ritual + sacrifice.bjnewsom's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Death
Minor: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder
rebeccacole98's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.25
Graphic: Physical abuse
parisreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Violence, and Murder
Minor: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
l_arand's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
this books follows blue sargent, a teenager from a clairvoyant family. while she doesn’t have any “gifts,” herself, she acts as an amplifier for those in her family (ex. if a member of her family can pick up on energy, having blue around them can make the energy’s presence more known).
the story begins on st. mark’s eve, where the soon-to-be-dead appear. there, she sees a boy who speaks to her directly. he introduced himself as “gansey” and when blue asks for more elaboration, the only response she gets is “that’s all there is.”
this prompts her into discovering what is going on with gansey, and sends her on a hunt to try to delay his death (since those who appear in st. mark’s eve are to die within the next year). and on top of this, she’s been told since her birth that she will kill her true love if she chooses to kiss him by all of her family, who keep in mind, are all gifted with magic.
at a night shift at her service job, she sees the boy from st. mark’s eve, and this heightens her curiousity, and before she knows it she’s been indoctrinated into his group of friends who all attend algionby, an elite private college prep school for boys who have more money than they know what to do with.
so, there’s the synopsis. the characters in this book are lovely, and we do learn more about them throughout the book. however, stiefvater leaves out enough information on them (and the quest they’re on) to keep the reader wanting more, which is sensible because it’s the first book of a series (the raven cycle). i found this book to be so immersive, and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t typically gravitate towards fantasy/magic. also, there are some beautiful quotes in this work that i still think about;
“he’d chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.”
“it was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.”
“a soul is vulnerable when it is outside the mind.”
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Classism
imds's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism
franzis_buecher's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Rereading in preparation for Greywaren this fall! I started with the English audiobook but switched to the German edition I have at home in the end, mainly because I didn't really like the narrator's voice this time around.
I noticed so many small details again which were kind of foreshadowing events and reveals in the sequels! (e.g.
That's what I love about rereading: (re)discovering these kinds of details!
I wouldn't say there's a strong character development in this first installment, because the development happens over the course of the four novels. But I really enjoyed rediscovering Adam's development in this book - he's characterized so well that his decision and
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3rd reread:
"I took Chainsaw out of my dreams" - chills.
Read for the 3rd time and it was still as good as ever (although it's so weird to read about Adam and Blue in the first book because they just don't really fit at all and I keep thinking of how far they and the others will develop and come into their own in the next books and how the characters are like in cdth and I'm just like holy shit these early versions of these people are almost unrecognizable to me by now).
It was interesting to listen to it as an audiobook this time around, the narrator is good but I think I prefer the narrator from all the crooked saints if I was to rank the audiobooks.
I feel like I need a bit of a break from Stiefvater books before I continue with tdt, even though this was amazing. I've read so many of her books these past few months and I think I need to read some other stuff for some variety.
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Physical abuse
Minor: Death, Sexism, Suicide attempt, and Murder