Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

81 reviews

blueberry0531'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Addiction

Moderate: Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Sexism, and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage

avawest's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Grief, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, and Gore

Minor: Miscarriage

ali_debookness's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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: Blood, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicide, Self harm, Slavery, and War

gayghostprince's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Body horror, Murder, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, War, Torture, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Infertility

there's a paragraph describing insects burrowing into skin. it's not pleasant, but not very graphic. the content warning for drug use is for a fantasy drug

imcourtneymarie's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.0

I'll start off with this: I've devoured the rest of the books in the Grishaverse and thoroughly enjoyed them. KoS left much to be desired. There were parts of it I enjoyed, and spots where I was surprised, but for the most part I was kind of bored. These are all characters that have been fabulous in previous books but, except for Zoya, they all felt forced. 

There's one part in particular that was kind of frustrating.

The likeness to the Harry Potter "Voldemort coming back from the dead" plot is kind of an eye roll.

I both groaned because "oh no!" and rolled my eyes because "I'm getting deja vu..." 

I will say that I did remain engaged, but it wasn't with the same hunger or passion that has existed in both the S&B and SoC stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Addiction, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Torture

Minor: Gore, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

lunahale's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad 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

4.75

OH MY GOD

i read the first four chapters in september, sat on my ass for almost three months, and then read the rest of the book in one day. zoya remains the most badass woman ever and nina holds me entire heart in the palm of her hand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, and Adult/minor relationship

boba_n_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

This was a nice addition to the Grishaverse. I did find myself gravitating toward one storyline over the other, but by and large, I enjoyed them all.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Gore, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Racism

lavenderbluestories's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.75

I was so, so excited to read this book and it did not disappoint… for the most part. Nikolai, Zoya, and Nina, whose perspectives the story is told from, are all fascinating and enjoyable characters to read about. Nikolai has got to be one of my all time favourite characters. I adored exploring more of his backstory and the struggles he faces throughout his journey. Zoya was someone who I never felt too strongly about in the S&B trilogy, but in this book I absolutely loved her. Discovering more of her story made her so much more powerful in my eyes, and she was a pleasure to read about. And then there’s Nina. As much as I love Nina as a character, her part in this book felt a bit… misplaced. I wasn’t really sure how her storyline fit into the rest of it until, well, I started the next book. However, I can’t deny that she did contribute a few brilliant scenes to King Of Scars.

The scene where she finally buried Matthias was more heartbreaking than anything the Grishaverse has produced so far, and I actually got choked up. That’s saying something since I never even liked Matthias…

Anyways, this book is definitely worth the read if you love the Grishaverse as much as I do!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

jessicax941's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Death

her's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death