Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Dark Secret by Tui T. Sutherland

7 reviews

bean71615's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Self harm, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death

star_charter152's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Torture, and War

abby_can_read's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• 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

4.0

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This was a cute book. In this series, I like how the narrator changes with each book. I think this was a good continuation on the storyline, and this book had its own plot as well. There were  few twists that I saw coming and a few that I didn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Ableism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, and Infertility

presco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Child death

kristyderp's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, War, Xenophobia, Bullying, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Death, Genocide, Gore, Abandonment, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

orchidlilly's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Murder, War, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Stalking, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Gore, Ableism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Bullying, and Confinement

Minor: Death of parent, Infertility, Chronic illness, and Cannibalism

papernihilist's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense

• 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

5.0

I’m going to be honest with y’all– I’d much rather be reading the next book already, but I have Many Thoughts about this one, so I feel kind of obligated to get this review out of the way. This book is just as good as the three before it, but it feels like the tone is shifting towards darkness a bit more quickly (although that shift was already speeding up in the last book). The new characters are skewed more to the scary side, and the setting made me especially anxious. (And that’s not a negative, for the record, I just think it needs to be said.)

The real talking point here, though, is Starflight. I’m not going to pretend he’s my favorite dragonet (although I don’t have a favorite, really, or a least favorite), and, honestly, this book made me like him a lot more, but I still find him a little overdramatic. It’s pretty likely that it’s because we’re kind of similar, honestly. His growth through the book was great, and I feel like I understand him and his place in the world a lot better, but... Alright. I just got sick of hearing about Sunny. 

I love Sunny, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that I feel like Starflight needs to chill out a little bit. Like, it’s all very sweet, but I feel like I got the point. 

Anyways, with that out of the way: This was probably the hardest book in the series for me to put down, I would go to hell and back for half the characters, and I absolutely cannot wait to read the next book! So if this review seems badly written, sorry, but I’d rather not waste time proofreading when I can be reading the next book in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Blood

I’m not totally sure how to tag for it, but there’s definitely some fantasy racism in this one, for lack of a better word. The NightWings are very sure of their own superiority, and use that specific word for it constantly. There’s also very unethical science prominently featured in the book (although it’s never justified by the plot or author, which is nice).