Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Las cenizas y el rey maldito by Carissa Broadbent

54 reviews

lbagley's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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

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I didn’t love this book the same way I loved the first one, but I imagine it’s really hard to compete with the first one. This one was a bit slower, but we got more world-building than the first. I loved Oraya and Raihn’s story, and I’m excited to see where the next books will go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol

rissaread's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

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this one took me a while to get into, i even paused reading it to read other things because i was struggling.  but i listened to the audiobook to help me get back into it and it did help! i really started to enjoy it more around the 50% mark, that’s when it picked up for me.  i almost want to give it 4 stars because of the last half but with how slow i felt the first half was i’ll keep it at a close 4 but not quite.  i did enjoy how oraya and raihn didn’t immediately get back together and she had to work through her anger towards his betrayal. but i’m glad that she finally and eventually lets herself give in to how much he does love her despite what he had done. overall, i love these two and this story so much.  i wish there was at least one more on their story but i’m hoping they make appearances in the following books. also very glad i read the novella before this so i could appreciate the vale and lilith cameos <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Torture, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

katelyn11's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark 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

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LOVED the story and the world. Dark fantasy indeed. Broadbent certainly knows how to write characters and emotional connection. 

One star detracted for explicit sexual content and profanity (see content warnings). It’s just not my preference. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Classism

Severe profanity (f*ck 200+ occurrences), explicit sexual content in chapters 44-45 and 65.

milsreads47's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A satisfactory ending to the night born duet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Rape

madalynjoanne's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery

juliesleseecke's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

jennipea382's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Vomit, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury

sophieseltz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Death of parent

kayceeisbookish's review against another edition

2.5

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I enjoyed book 1 more. This one felt like it was dragging a bit for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent

stackingspines's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark informative mysterious slow-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

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I'll start by saying I loved the information that we got during this book. However, I found the first 75% of the book so slow it was a struggle to continue. I love the content of the book, the pace was just way too slow. I was very pleased with the ending though! I will read more by this author though! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder