Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix

22 reviews

monicajaylynn's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, and Gaslighting

styxx's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, War, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

chelseytennis52's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Gore, Child death, and Death

kodiex's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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: Violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Child death, and Animal death

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Classism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Child death, Hate crime, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Torture, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping and Medical content

frantically's review against another edition

This book just didn't bring anything special to the table. We've read about witches, we've read about getting engaged to the prince and falling for his sister again, we've read about royals realizing their privilege and how they, too, have been exploited. We've read about

mentors who had to take parental roles dying

and

both sides showing their villainous traits

. This could've been redeemed with giving us something interesting to make the story stand out, be that beautiful writing or great characterisation but in the end, this will just end up in the trenches of stereotypical YA novels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content and Xenophobia

Minor: Death of parent

quinnpjd930's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death and Physical abuse

maris_lemons's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gore

ahna's review

dark emotional inspiring 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

3.0

Ranka's story was a good one to tell with exciting moments along the way but I kept getting lost with the over-the-top violence and with what seemed missing to me. In a world of witches and magic, so little was explained about either. I spent scenes with the covens wondering what made them witches past their nails and enhanced senses. Additionally there were so many graphic deaths I wondered if there were even any citizens of Isodal left at the end. Overall a cute story but I wished for better world building.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder