Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

16 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Blood, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Dysphoria, Classism, Grief, Death, Self harm, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

hal00alex's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Perfect for mythology lovers. It is fast pace without feeling like a Lightning Thief copy cat.

I knocked some points off for cliff hanger at end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

fanboyriot's review

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

4.0

The world building to this was so interesting, I loved how it all came together and how the gods were there with the humans.  Think a young adult mash up of Percy Jackson and The Hunger Games—and make it queer.

It did take me a few chapters to fully get invested in this but once I did I ended up reading twenty-two chapters in one sitting. 

Obviously, I’m not a fan with how this ended but luckily I waited long enough to read this to know it ended on a major cliffhanger.  So it wasn’t quite as devastating.

Release Date: 06, September 2022

POV: Third Person

Rep: Trans (MC), LGBTQIA+ characters, BIPOC characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Bullying, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Grief, War, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, and Death

Minor: Transphobia, Child death, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

nerdysread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Damn I loved it so much. It was so hard to put it down and if it wasn’t for uni I would have read it in one week. 
The characters are great, the mystery surrounding the trials too, the action, the ending, the relationships , TEO, everything was great in this book. But I need book two like NOW

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Dysphoria, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and War

shaipanda's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Finally finished thisss - this was one of my most highly anticipated reads of 2022 but like so many of my most anticipated reads, I didn’t get around to reading/finishing it for months 
However overall I really liked it! I wasn’t as invested or obsessed as I wanted to be but I did grow to really like a lot of the characters and I’m obcesseddd with the world building 
Especially due to the plot twist right at the end I’m excited to read the second one but personally this one wasnt quite a 5 star for me unfortunately 
I’m not a huge quest person in terms of it being the whole plot and need more a bit more character development than this book gave 
I think because it was more plot based, it didn’t allow me for me to get as invested in the characters for most of the book 
Also, because of a few of the characters characterizations as the villains we didn’t get to see much of who they really were/could be and if that was genuinely what they’re like or if they were being manipulated 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

limiwh's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Bullying

Moderate: Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Child abuse

Minor: Death, Child death, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

spark_879's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Child death, and Death of parent

blood is always colours other than red

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I have missed the intensely fast pacing of certain YA/middle grade books and this fully delivered on that front. The plot hard carried the book by so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Bullying, Cursing, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Animal death, and Death of parent

Bullying is done both by characters you're not supposed to root for and characters you're supposed to vote for. Ableism is unchallenged & specifically anti-npd ableism.

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review

adventurous emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Bullying, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death and Dysphoria

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Medical content, Transphobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

arthur_ant18's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Death of parent