Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Unseelie Prince by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

21 reviews

januaryt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Grief, Blood, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Gore, Infertility, Torture, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

tlskayte's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Infertility

Minor: Rape

caseymac's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Death, Body horror, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content and Gore

Minor: Infertility, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Animal death, Grief, War, and Torture

nunudeen's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Death

marajay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Bullying, Infertility, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

Minor: War and Infertility

Few scenes are tense but nothing unbearable. Child/suicide spoiler-

child abuser and death in one scene depicting the kid being turned into a goblin. Kid wished his baby sister dead and the prince skinned him and turned him into a goblin as payment. Many side characters encourage female main to complete suicide to prevent a war and genocide. Assassination attempts happen and in the end she surrenders .

mentions of rape and her worries of such but one scene is questionable but no actual rape. She’s never illicitly tortured but stuff happens around her. Female main is infertile. Not a spoiler but just as a trigger warning.

yomaddjesty's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Gore, Animal death, Death, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War, Torture, Suicide attempt, Infertility, and Self harm

spines's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

4.75

I can't rate this a 5 solely because it was unsatisfying in the way it left me wanting more. thankfully there is more but holy shit holy shit holy shit!!!

my heart was in my throat for the whole last chapter. my heart was pounding while reading the whole book.

most fantasy enemies to lovers books do one of two things: enemy does bad things with good intentions, or out of misunderstandings, or is in some way cursed or forced to be bad, or enemy falls in insta-love and suddenly regrets everything he's done as he develops empathy. 

this one does neither. Valroy does bad things because he has to but also because he wants to. there is a twinge of pity and empathy in the fact that he was created for the purpose of cruelty, that it's all he's ever known, but he revels in it and does not wish to stop and this is unacceptable to Abigail. He doesn't even seem to understand why she finds him so abhorrent which makes it even harder to untangle her feelings for him.

Abigail is a perfect character. From first meeting she is downtrodden but warm-hearted, not in a Pollyanna cheerful way but just someone with a deep sense of empathy and justice. She's scrappy and insightful but she doesn't have the power to actually win her battles. The war between her lust and loathing for Valroys is much more palpable and realistic than other fantasy e2l protags and I adored everything she did. 

The setting is lush and intricately woven, the side characters are vibrant and lovable, the writing style had me desperately flipping to the next chapter, and I'm writing this as fast as I can so I can get to the sequel. Fucking stellar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Abandonment, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Infertility

peeshy's review against another edition

challenging dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Death, and Violence

sabinehunter's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Infertility, Toxic relationship, War, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

cosyqueer's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.75

bullshit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Blood, Violence, Death, Sexual content, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Vomit, and Infertility

Minor: Body horror and Rape