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The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen

24 reviews

booksandbotanics's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

_savannahreads_'s review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and War

sophiaarnoldi's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit

sami_leigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, and War

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and War

Dual POV, third person narration. Relatively strong character development allowing for the reader to truly champion the protagonist. The world building left some description to be desired in order to truly picture the setting of Ithicana and The Bridge. I’m looking forward to the development of some characters -both their relationships with others and the revelation of further backstory -in the sequel. I LOVE the representation of strong female warriors who don’t seem to be questioned based on gender.

Aren and Lara are the perfect enemies to lovers to enemies recipe. I genuinely enjoy when a male MC ‘falls’ first and I appreciated that he was not naive to Lara’s plotting, making his intentions and feelings seem genuine. I want to know more about how Lara’s upbringing has inhibited her trust in Aren as some of her omissions seemed unnecessary and confusing at times. Further character development on her part will be intriguing to watch as it unfolds in book 2.

teri_b's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I had wanted to read The Bridge Kingdom for a while now, so when I finally made the dive for trying out audible for a time, I listened to the audiobook.

For me as a seasoned fantasy reader, the book got off to a somewhat wonky start, but then started  to get better.

What Danielle Jensen writes really well is relationships, and that is what I loved in this book the most.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

kaseybereading's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and War

khloereads86'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

5.0

This is one of my favourite fantasy books and I never understand why it’s not more popular. It’s not perfect but it really draws you in, it’s a really interesting world and the dynamics and enemies to lovers between Lara and Aren are so good. The ending although we saw it coming was still heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Torture, Vomit, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore and Blood

k_wage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and War

ellasimpsforbooks's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Blood, and War