Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Glint by Raven Kennedy

40 reviews

makaylastep's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Gaslighting

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Vomit, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and War

itsbrianascall's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

biblioandbrew's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

sophienocturne's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

crystalfaery'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Infertility, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

I liked this one better than the first. I was really struggling to love Auren. Rip intrigued me from the get go and Midas has always given me the ick. I also found a lot of the reveals predictable in this book.

I had to keep reminding myself that Auren is responding to trauma and that’s why she makes what I would call dumb decisions. It made it difficult to get through sometimes. I want to root for Queen Malina but I am not rooting for her she’s almost as ugly as Midas. Midas not having any actual powers surprised me and Rip and Rot being the same person also surprised me

There was enough interesting things and surprises to keep me interested but I’m going to need Auren to step it up for me to love this series because at this time it’s a meh. I do like however how it shows someone breaking down and dismantling their beliefs and how difficult that can be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual content, and Classism

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

hilbo01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and War

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

If someone asks you for the definition of a filler book, please show them this book.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed reading this! But at some point I looked down, saw that I was on page 370 and still — almost nothing had happened.

There's some character and relationship development and I did enjoy reading about the soldiers and their time at camp but really, all of that could've been shortened.

We do get loads of fun reveals at the end of the book though, one of them I really didn't expect. Will continue reading this series but really, don't expect too much plot from this installment (and I'm saying this as someone who's always characters > plot).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Rape and Pregnancy

eleek0609's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dealfea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

This is my reread of the series in preparation for the release of Goldfinch later this year. I still very much enjoy the growing relationship between Auren and Rip and I love that she finally starts to find her way to herself. Already knowing the major plot points it was fun to remeet Lu, Judd and Osrik and I am still a great fan of the Wrath. Malina is still obnoxious and entitled and I still think she deserved all that happened to her for being such a horrible monarch. However, I still think her plotlines are super important for the overall story and she is definitely not my least favourite monarch (looking at you Midas). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War