Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Las cenizas y el rey maldito by Carissa Broadbent

54 reviews

alliemccarthy16's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, War

spatterson7's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Kidnapping, Death of parent

beebowbabe's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Rape, Alcohol, War

jordan_welch's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

nikkissaw's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes

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Loved it! Better than book 1.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War

sibard's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Alcohol

erinkellyreads's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense 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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Continuing from the first book in this duology, I am again conflicted in my review. I did get more about the gods and Vincent/Oraya's past, which is what I was looking for, but... this dragged. I just never felt the chemistry between Raihn & Oraya and so when they were fighting over what Raihn did (which - valid, girl, I don't know if I could be in the same room with him after that in the beginning) I wasn't super rooting for them to get back together. I found myself skimming pages to get to the good parts. The ending was, in some ways, expected and, in others, unsatisfying. Now the question becomes - do I do what I did to myself with the Hades/Persephone series and push to read the rest in this world to see if it gets better or do I cut my losses on this series? Time will tell. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism

hapalyn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Slavery, Medical content, Grief, Murder

wildflower_magic's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Torture, Vomit

Minor: Animal death, Alcohol, Classism

emilywemily6's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed this book and found that it has a lot of things that I love- complex and messy characters that are so relatable and lovable, intriguing world building and political intrigue, exploration of grief, etc. I think vampires are just not quite for me. I loved seeing the progression of Oraya’s reconciliation with her past and Oraya and Raihn’s relationship after what happened in the first book- it was dynamic and flawed and heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once. And the spice 🥵 I’m not usually a fan of messy relationships but I enjoyed this one. I loved the twists at the end and look forward to hearing more stories about the white pantheon of gods if the author delves further that way. This book is just too long though, so I am more happy to be done reading it that I was reading it, if that makes sense. I would read more from this author, but I probably wouldn’t seek out her books unless they were significantly shorter than 600 pages. I look forward to the novella set in this world!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol