Reviews tagging 'Death'

Lady of Darkness by Melissa K. Roehrich

12 reviews

latenightpages84's review

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

enjoyed as first in series. intrigued enough to continue but FMC was difficult to like. she is stubbornly ignorant and immature but has room to emotionally grow. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

karamoore1702's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Somewhat predictable, but overall an enjoyable read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Vomit, Death, War, Cursing, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

alibubba'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Torture, Murder, Violence, and Blood

labxtch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Immersive world building, fun characters, and a thick plot. Hot guys, secret nights in hidden areas, the tension.. Yeah this was a nail biter, edge-of-the-seat kind of book, and I LOVED it. 

The last 50 pages of this book really got me raging, but I kept reminding myself it’s the first book in a five book series so.. 

To the next book!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Child death, Death, Violence, Rape, and Child abuse

pajamamomreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

While I did enjoy this audiobook I had so many thoughts and questions. For the FMC who is highly feared, trained and high ranking, why can she not defend herself, kill Mr.rapist throughout that whole year, or come to conclusions on her own. Why give her all this training if she's not going to use it? 

I don't typically mind things being predictable but the fact that she didn't realize she was

fae, or that Sorin was the prince, or that Mr.Rapist had som thing to do with the kids disappearing

was maddening. She is so observant and at the same time, not at all observant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Vomit

taywinger's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.25

This book is confusing for me to try to rate. I almost DNF’d in the beginning because I didn’t love the writing style. It felt pretty forced and the dialogue was very stilted and awkward. But the storyline eventually became intriguing enough that I kept going. However, most of the “twists” were very obvious, which made it all the more infuriating that Scarlett acted like her world was falling apart every time she found out a new piece of information. Truthfully, I just found her to be a very annoying, frustrating main character who overreacted to all the info Sorin kept from her. Like I get it, it sucks he didn’t tell you, but like you also actively avoided the conversation so what was he supposed to do?? And then you have to throw it in his face that he “broke” you??? I just hated it and it just happened too many times throughout the book. And the “big reveal” at the end of the book was perhaps the most guessable of all of them, which again, made her reaction especially annoying and the ending kind of anticlimactic. With that being said, it was intriguing enough that I do want to keep going with the series. It feels like a mix of Throne of Glass and From Blood and Ash. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Rape, Death of parent, and Child death

victoriamark's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Rape

shelbeavs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, Rape, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

dezzella's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Very good! Fair warning though it has some very dark themes/sequences so please check triggers.

I love the world and the magic, and even though the characters were being dumb sometimes I loved them too. We can't all be intelligent and seeing all the pieces coming together (and let's be real sometimes we're here for the overdramatics). 

Interested to see where this goes next and will definitely be reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Sexual assault, and Murder

kkocik's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Torture, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Vomit, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Kidnapping