Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

108 reviews

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Withholding my review in solidarity with the Harper Collins Union strike. I will post upon the union receiving a fair bargain.

I really liked this, but it did have some problems that I didn't initially realize. Overall, I'm glad I read it but I won't be continuing in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Blood

Moderate: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

csmall73's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? No

4.0

Full of adventure, political intrigue, challenges, and beauty.  It was a great read. Can’t wait to read the 2nd book. I’m dying to know which way the love triangle ends up. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, Confinement, Bullying, and Injury/Injury detail

efratmaor's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Love the book. On one hand it can be a junior-high book, but it is so captivating and the mythology so refreshing and different, that it a great adult read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

It's been a long time since I started reading this and I just don't really feel like doing so anymore. Hardly any of the characters have much depth to them, the love triangle is unnecessary, and the plotting feels too episodic in nature. All the obstacles that Xingyin faces feel too easily overcome before she moves on to the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Murder

hanz's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: War

chrisljm's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.0

Another book that didn’t live up to the hype. The writing is flowery and pretty, but that’s it. The plot and characters lack depth and it felt like 400+ pages of just trying to fit every plot point the author had planned. 

 

The characters were so boring. Xingyin the female main character, is two-dimensional and lacks growth, but the worst thing to be done to her character was to end up having her centered around her love interests. The romance was definitely the worst thing about the book, and I could not have cared less. The characters had no chemistry, the two male leads had no personality, and the development in their relationships came off even worse because the pacing in the story was poorly done. 

 

This book had me apathetic at best. The romance? Didn’t care. Xingyin only likes these boys because they’re there and the male leads. The plot? Also didn’t care. It’s hard to feel bad for any of her issues when there is no emotional impact in the writing, and so much telling and no showing. 

 

This book just lacked in so much: personality, depth, climax, tension. The only thing it has going for it is pretty words but at the end of the day, who cares. 

And you know what. You know how ridiculous it felt, reading about how hurt Xingyin was that Lingwei chose another woman, only for her to tell Wenzhi she wants to leave the army with him and be with him in the next fucking line. And then for Lingwei to come back in the next scene and have her be depressed over him again. Girl stfu.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Death, Torture, Body horror, Kidnapping, and Sexism

Minor: Stalking and Pregnancy

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Rape, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Abandonment, Confinement, Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, and Sexual assault

alanis_thespookyreader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Sexual assault

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and War

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief, Sexism, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

takarakei's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

I can't believe it took me this long to read this book. I absolutely loved it!
Even though this is a 500 pg book, to me it reads very fast. I think this is accomplished by not spending extraneous time on repetitive day-to-day descriptions of the main characters' lives. The focus stays on the crucial scenes to the storyline. I think this gives a good sense of how the characters (as they are immortal) experience years as if they were days. The action-packed pacing made me not want to put it down! The writing throughout is beautiful and poignant, yet very easy to follow. I found the world to be very unique and lushly described. I actually really enjoyed the love triangle (which I usually don't enjoy reading).

I will say the one concession I have is that this book does not pass the Bechdel test, as Xingyi's one real female friendship does not have a lot of depth, and often they are just gossiping about Xingyi's love interests... I think there might be one very brief, barely conversation where they kind of discuss their families.

I will say this book wraps up fairly nicely, and since this is a duology I am curious where the second book will go... but I am excited to read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit, Sexism, and Sexual harassment