Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Banda celor șase ciori by Leigh Bardugo

119 reviews

stinkyrat's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Cursing, Abandonment, and Alcohol

rose_88's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Very different to the Shadow and Bone trilogy, but I loved it none the less. I loved how mismatch the ‘crew’ was, and I liked how each of their backstories were littered throughout, rather than getting them all at once.

Though I really want to know more about Wylan, I was disappointed that there were no chapters from his point of view but I loved seeing him from other people’s perspective.

I loved Kaz and Inej, and Matthias and Nina’s real action ships, as well as how different they were. I also really loved Wylan and Jesper’s dynamic, looking forward to seeing more of them.

One thing i really didn’t see coming was that it was Jesper who gave away their plans, and it really wasn’t his fault, he didn’t mean to, but I know Kaz is gonna blame him, and I feel really bad for him, cause it is OBVIOUS that Jesper at least had a crush on Kaz, he literally said how he knew he was nervous when they first got to the Ice Court because he had the opportunity to see Kaz naked but didn’t take it. I just feel so bad for my boy Jes. I felt so bad when he realised he was ALWAYS the only one not knowing the plan/not knowing that Wylan had been tailored to look like the scientist.

I know this is meant to be a darker series than S&B but JESUS. The amount of trauma these teenaged, these CHILDREN, have is absolutely astonishing.

One thing I will say, it got very confusing between them getting a new plan and getting to the Grisha in the Treasury, I just felt it was very hard to visualise it, and the ending came very quickly after, I would really have liked to see how they all reacted when they escaped and how they felt about Nina’s taking of the drug and then getting back to Ketterdam.

Usually, I don’t like cliffhangers, but I felt this one with Inej having been taken by Van Eck just creates high stakes for the next book, which I’m looking forward to. It also opens the opportunity for Kaz to refer to Inej as  ‘my girl’. I love them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Abortion, Murder, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

buchstabenmaedchen's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia

cozybookseller's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Grief

Minor: Child death

lindseysquire's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Racism, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Alcohol

A lot of the content warnings occur in flashbacks to the characters’ childhoods, so most of the violence and abuse is happening to children under the age of 15. Please keep that in mind before reading it. It’s an amazing book, but it could be very triggering.

autumnal_moon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Cursing, Rape, and Sexual harassment

dancing_on_ur_muml0l's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Badass fight scenes: check
Traumatic backstories that are good: check
Characters with brains: check
romance: CHECK!!!!

Book = fucking good!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Slavery, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, and Murder

entityj's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Gore and Grief

seren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Sexual violence

anulaa's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Cursing and Violence