Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

41 reviews

moon_anu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Child death, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Death, Genocide, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and War

meghan_w's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

My favorite in the series so far!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Torture, and War

Minor: Child death

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

4.0

Felt like the pacing was a bit off and that some of the character arcs changed a bit too fast in a short number of chapters to really be able to take in the change for the direction the story was going in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Stalking, War, Confinement, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pregnancy, Torture, Ableism, Child death, Blood, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Body horror, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

singingshooter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Gore, Medical trauma, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Miscarriage, Murder, Slavery, Suicide, Death, Excrement, Grief, and War

aklovekorn'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Child death, Grief, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Gore

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Confinement, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and War

jessversteeg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

Even on the second read, I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death, Sexual assault, Grief, Body horror, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Blood, Murder, Confinement, Pregnancy, Vomit, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Child death

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Torture, Vomit, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, and Xenophobia

mcbuckelew's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Child death, and Physical abuse

sreilly1's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Lot of plot happenings, setting up for some good romance 😋 but I can definitely see myself forgetting what happens in this book later on 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Miscarriage, Genocide, Gore, Pregnancy, Vomit, War, Confinement, Child death, and Death