Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

34 reviews

lee_6398's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Slavery

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Genocide, Islamophobia, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

jackiepreston's review

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Rape, and Pregnancy

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

victoria_elaine's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? N/A

3.5

I really love this series, but I hope the fourth book is better than this. I did not like what became of Elias, and Helene definitely became the main focus of the plot. I wasn’t constantly motivated to keep reading it, but I got there eventually. I can’t wait to read the final book in the series. I think it will wrap everything up nicely and (hopefully) it will bring together a couple of ships iykyk 😉 P.S. rage rant in the spoiler

WHO LET ELIAS DITCH LAIA LIKE THAT??? LIKE WHAT?!?! BUT IM SO IN LOVE WITH HELITAS (HEL AND AVITAS HARPER)!!!! ISTG IF HE DIES I WILL JUMP OFF A CLIFF. AND COOK BEING THE LIONESS MADE ME SCREAM.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, War, Pregnancy, Murder, and Gore

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, and Genocide

biancas_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

In this installment, I loved Helene's storyline the most. Her character developed so much in comparison to the first book. Besides that, it just was the most interesting and suspenseful. 
Elias' storyline, however, I didn't like at all. I just couldn't find myself being invested in it.

The whole book I was waiting for them to figure out a way for Elias to not be the Soul Catcher. They didn't but I really freaking hope that they will in the next book. I'm not mentally prepared for anything else.

Therefore, I nocked 0.25 points off my rating.

Other than that, I again was a huge fan of Tahir's writing style and I loved that she took the conflict that's been building up a notch further. I can't wait to see how everything will be resolved in the next - and last - book. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Genocide, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, and Torture

Minor: Slavery

atamano's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Torture, Violence, and War

mypatronusisajedi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Blood

kilic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexism, Pregnancy, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

destdest's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

 On one hand, I hate how STRESSFUL this series is. No one can be happy here. The realities and atrocities of war are here and constant. A particular double woman-child sacrifice was tough to read, but it showed how some people will do anything for power and the all-consuming nature of unstoppable violence. Some of the characters are even forced to seek help from foes or other vile humans.

And yet I can’t put this series down. I have come to enjoy these characters (Harper, Helene, Elias, etc) a lot though Laia can be irrational, often. But her heart is in the right place. I want more of Darin now that he FINALLY got his junk together. While Elias was seriously slacking at his job for 3/4s of the book, his new struggle with humanity and stoicness has my interest.

These novels are thick, but each one has been an easy reading experience. This dark, violent, and tragic mess of a story is enthralling. Everything's not perfect, but I want to read more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse and Pregnancy

coolbeancat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Torture