Reviews tagging 'Violence'

A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos

65 reviews

clabbb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

izgetsbetter's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

The world building and the plot really lured me in and kept me going throughout the book. I found I was more interested in how the world works and the political conversations than the main character, which is kinda sad. 

Not gonna lie, she’s the absolute worst! The author really tried to emphasize how “quirky” she was and how much she wasn’t “like other girls”. It’s pretty gross. And what’s worse is that she doesn’t really develop.... like at all. She was annoying from start to finish. In the end, I preferred the “antagonists” over her. 

Even though she annoys me to no end, I will most likely read the rest of the series. Wish me luck! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Violence

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

ambitiousnalgene's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

I really enjoyed this book! It was sometimes hard to see where it was going but I think it just was trying to set up the future books

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse and Violence

readinwithyourheadlow's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

very whimsical and i could just envision this story being adapted as an animated film, almost something ghibli-like (

especially the scene where ophelia leaves with thorn and her family waves her off in the rain

). the way the characters were sometimes described just added to this whimsy and animation-like quality, as they were described with very exaggerated features, something you would see in an animated film or cartoon. i quite liked the main character, ophelia, she was a bit different from the typical "girl boss" main character we often see in fantasy and i found that quite refreshing and made me want to root for her! as for thorn,

  i was warming up to him and then the ending made me feel so bad for ophelia! it seems no one is in her corner apart from us, the readers and maybe fox and her mechanic friend (i forget her name)

. i quite liked that, even though she is quite adventurous, she never lost her ophelia-ness. a solid fantasy novel and i immediately need to read the sequel after that ending!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Violence

warnings regarding violence include multiple instances of ophelia being slapped, being severely beaten by police after being falsely accused of murder and the mental violence inflicted on her by berenilde using her powers. warnings regarding miscarriage include multiple mentions where people talk about people going to attempt to kill berenilde's baby and cover it up as a miscarriage and people actively trying to kill the baby and cover it up as a miscarriage.

bookspaperink's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

wayward_sara's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

For the first 100 pages or so I found this book a bit boring, then things got more intriguing. I personally think that the worldbuilding is the most interesting thing of this first book butI want to know how this story continues. In the end, it's a good book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Animal death and Death

thelibraryofalexandra's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Physical abuse

dalawis's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Murder, Death, and Child death

mxrumphius's review against another edition

slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Blood

Minor: Xenophobia, Suicide, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Child death

dancingkouign's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

a bit slow for my taste but the plot is interesting enough to make me wanna pick up another 500 page book haha
i actually really like the main character which surprised me because i usually struggle with quiet characters but she's great, she's quiet but she has strong opinions, I like that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood and Sexism