Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

47 reviews

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-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

3.5

Not my favorite Grishaverse novel (that still goes to Crooked Kingdom), but I like seeing what's happening with some of the characters after that! I'll admit, there's definitely a cliffhanger here and I've heard that Rule of Wolves is even better. My library copy needs to get in now so I can read it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Kidnapping

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

fairytaleriots's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is insane. Fun! But insane

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Infertility and Miscarriage

valyn_grebe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexism, Slavery, and Vomit

readwithria's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Drug abuse, Addiction, Sexual violence, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Genocide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Slavery, Murder, and Self harm

emmagrace's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Drug abuse, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Drug use, and Gore

Moderate: Genocide, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage, Cursing, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

kenziewol's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I love this book!! I seriously couldn’t put it down, it was addicting. Nikolai is my favorite grishaverse character so I am not too surprised I loved this books so much, but I didn’t expect to love Zoya as much as I do now! I also loved getting to continue Nina’s story! One of my favorite things is jumping between the different plot lines, it kept the book intriguing and had me reading as fast as I could. I loved seeing familiar faces and there was so much I genuinely didn’t seem coming. I loved this book so much and I’m so sad I’m done reading it. I know I only have 2 weeks until rule of wolves is out, but man idk how I’m gonna survive — especially with that ending (I feel for all you who read this when it came out).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Sexism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

lennie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Slavery, and Torture