Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare, Cliff Nielsen

14 reviews

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

oh my god that ending. PREPARE YOURSELF.
i cannot wait til second year is done and i can read properly again bc i absolutely loved this yet it took me a week bc ive been so tired and busy
 working part time in exam season does not make it easy to read 700 pages. 
this book was so good, i love all the characters sm and all the diversity of them. the malec crumbs made my heart so happy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, War, Murder, and Grief

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Torture and Sexual content

ali_k0's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Murder, War, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Torture, and Fatphobia

mariellebooks's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, and Hate crime

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

4.5

This book has so much action it made my head spin. Usually second books in a trilogy are slow and have a lot of set up but not this one. The ending was so chaotic I’m not sure where or how the next book will continue on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, and Confinement

Moderate: Torture and Racism

Minor: Transphobia, Sexual content, and Fatphobia

aklovekorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Animal death, Murder, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Torture, Violence, Child death, Gore, Racism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Biphobia, Blood, Sexual content, Transphobia, and War

2j4d3's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Torture, and Murder

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I have slowly been making my way through The Shadowhunters' books for about a year now. After reading and loving The Infernal Devices series, I was apprehensive to pick up The Dark Artifices. Now that I have read two out of the three in The Dark Artifices series, I can guess that unless "Queen of Air and Darkness" does something super amazing, The Dark Artifices is my least favorite part of this series. 
This book felt three hundred pages too long with too many perspectives and far too much information for the reader to sift through. I struggled to get into this book for weeks, and when I finally got a little momentum, the story was almost over. I do enjoy how complex Cassandra Clare makes her world and how much detail she pours into her writing, but this was just too much for me. 
I do plan to continue my Shadowhunters journey, but I am more apprehensive to pick up an even longer Dark Artifices book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Grief

em_davies7019's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

lujssday's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? N/A

5.0

what was that ending judith

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence