Reviews tagging 'Murder'

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

52 reviews

kaetheluise_nckl'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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, Death, Child death, Torture, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Confinement and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide and Slavery

imds's review

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Blood, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

danajoy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Outing, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

rhythmofryn's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.25

I was *so* close to DNF with this book because once I got to the 40% mark, it got REAL slow.

the quest with Alucard, Kell, and Lila heading out by themselves really breaks the tension because the real drama is about Red London crumbling so their whole pirate adventure was lost on me

  I pushed through because I really wanted to know what happened at the end of the series and it did pick up a lot at around the 80% mark.

This is a BLEAK book and that’s not a huge surprise from the other two books but it gets worse in this book. Good characters are cut down

poor Rhy is put through the wringer even more

and it’s rough. I’m not really an enjoyer of bleak books and that definitely dragged down my rating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Self harm, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, Violence, and Death

jessicaludden's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

“Pain reminds us that we’re alive.”

I really enjoyed this book. When I started this series I wasn’t sucked in right from the start, but I’m glad I stuck with it because I really liked this last book. My biggest complaint with the other books in the series was the pacing. I felt like they focused too much on the mundane things that characters did causing it to get really slow before it finally picked up. But I think the pacing was amazing with this book which surprised me considering that it’s 600 pages. Do I think it needed to be that long? No, but there was never a moment when I thought the story was dragging. It was very much a typical high fantasy book where the characters are fighting the big bad and there’s a lot of moving parts. The highlight of this book for me was Rhy. I liked him before, but this book made me love him so much. I loved how his character, along with many others touched on grief and how to live with it. What I loved most about this book was the ending. With so many characters we got to see many different point of views. It was a typical bittersweet goodbye at the end where the characters we love are splitting up but we know they’ll see each other again. Overall, I enjoyed this series and I’m glad I grew to love it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture, Death of parent, Suicide, Body horror, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, and Grief

lucygraham_27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Death, Sexual content, and Death of parent

escapismforlife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

As usual V.E. Schwab'    fantasy  world  in   the  city(s) of London is amazing. Not to mention the magical characters. Also Rhy who is one of the best royal  prince character  ever. I never thought  I would  appreciate  a character  with that name but here we are.

 The  magicians are  literally the central  focus of this books  plot. It's a differenf level of  the dangers  one person can bring in a city unprepared  again.  And I loved every second  of  this series conclusion. From how it continued seamlessly  from  book  two. To the revelations  of  power  and  relations.  It was such a journey that I can't  wait to  come  back to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Self harm, and Violence

I lived for how slowly Lila came to be recognized as an antari. That she didn't let that stop her from being the best in this new magical world were everyone seemed to underestimate her. Also how Rhy was just stubborn and string despite not having any magic. He is the best kind of leader who takes risk.

serena_hien's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

jenbosen's review

adventurous dark 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

4.0

It took 2 books plus another 300 pages but eventually this series became a page-turner I couldn't put down. It was interesting from page 1; I just wish it had been able to hold my attention faster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Murder

macauley's review

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

5.0

Wow wow wow. This was such a great end to the series. My heart was definitely hurting at the end, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the book when I wasn’t reading it. It was impossible to guess what would happen next. Schwab did amazing exposition on Holland and he honestly became one of my favorite characters by the end. I would 1000% recommend this series to my friends.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Violence, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder