Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

56 reviews

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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: Physical abuse and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Infidelity, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Toxic relationship

johns6ka's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Infidelity, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, and Cannibalism

eire2011's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

 I really enjoyed reading this and was interesting to a bit more insight into how Cardan became the Fairy that he is. The artwork was beautiful and I found it all very enchanting! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Violence, and Emotional abuse

culzean's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Abandonment, Blood, Drug use, and Alcohol

quinn_07's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

The artwork is absolutely stunning - my favourite part of the book. I also enjoyed seeing more of Cardan's backstory and understanding his character a little better. However, some stories were filler stories and didn't add much. A nice short read though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Moderate: Bullying and Violence

Minor: Drug use and Sexual content

taylorswiftobsessed's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Bullying, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual content

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.75

just read this in like an hour, so simple/short but i missed this world sm and now i wanna reread the trilogy so bad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, Bullying, Abandonment, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Slavery

leonormsousa's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Drug use, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-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

4.75

I really liked these short stories that show more of cardan as a character and his upbringing and how he changed throughout the main story I particularly liked the one story that was told but changed slightly every time to reflect where he was in his life and I just like him alot. I love his and judes relationship.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment