Reviews tagging 'War'

The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

8 reviews

xxkatastrophe's review

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Pregnancy, and War

graceheartsbooks's review

4.75

Wow. I was not expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did. Catalina and Thane were such interesting characters and I loved getting to see them navigating a relationship together. I especially appreciate how this book discussed self esteem and grief as it’s two subjects I’m intimately aware of. It broke my heart to hear Catalina dismiss all the hardships she had gone through—how no one in her life thought she was good enough or worthy just by being herself. But that made her coming to realization that she is a person that should be valued was even sweeter. I also loved how Thane’s grief over his husband was discussed. Grief is ever present, ever changing but it doesn’t stop anybody from moving forward and continuing to love—even knowing that they may continue to love the person that they lost…I just completely adored this book. I took a short break to have dinner but was hooked the whole way through❣️

Also bonus points for this book being pro-choice and actually allowing a childless character to not want kids. It feels like a lot of romance novels have pregnancy be the end all be all even for characters that declare they don’t want children which to me, as a sex repulsed asexual who wants to adopt children, I find it particularly insulting. So this was such a breath of fresh air!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, and Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse and Death

Minor: Violence, Pregnancy, and War

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

aislinghelen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Abortion, and Abandonment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and War

mads_reads_books's review

emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Abortion and Pregnancy

Minor: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and War

kaetheluise_nckl's review

emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Medical content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

CW provided by author: Abuse/neglect (mental/emotional, parent to child, historical), spousal death (historical, non-graphic, off-page), explicit sex, vomit (non-graphic), pregnancy termination (non-graphic), incidental injuries for magical purposes, grief, body shaming (historical, referenced briefly), reference to age play and to DDlg, slight dollification, use of unconventional gag

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Death of parent

Minor: Blood and War

ronan_lesh's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Murder and War