Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Zodiac Academy 9: Restless Stars by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

3 reviews

ashleynp24's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

By far the best part of this book is Seth and Caleb. I felt they really carried with their relationship. The ending of the book with the war and then the afterwards was fun. I liked seeing their lives after. I did feel like it was kind of anticlimactic though and I felt Lionel and Lavinia should have had worse deaths. I do feel things got wrapped up nicely, I’d have liked to read more about their kids. Also the last chapter said there’s more evil coming so I wonder if there will be more writing in a spinoff of their kids for that? Also I know why they didn’t kill off any main characters but I feel the battle would’ve been more impactful if one of the main characters was killed, not just Justin and Milton.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Gore, Torture, Death of parent, Genocide, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

mary_catherine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Torture, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book wraps up the Zodiac Academy Series. I love the characters in this series and the amount of depth and growth you see in them over the series. This book, being the last one, goes through the war with the False King, there is death and destruction, as you would expect. But there is also love, so much love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Genocide, War, Death of parent, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Emotional abuse, Classism, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy