Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Korppien kehä by Leigh Bardugo

624 reviews

rmcassel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Addiction and Trafficking

seapotatohowisitalrtaken's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and War

Minor: Cursing

lani__'s review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Trafficking

phantom_highway's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Slavery and Trafficking

ruthannejoy's review against another edition

5.0

Fantastic. I read the thing in one sitting and couldn't put it down. By 1 am, I was about 75% of the way through, and knew there was no turning back. The last quarter of the book, if not more of it, is a complete page turner, with the action building and twisting in delightfully complex ways. The action is so well written! And the style of each chapter told from a different character's perspective is masterfully done. It wasn't until the last chapter that I even consciously realized they were told in third person, because the narration was so personal and pulled me in so intimately, I felt like I was the first person character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

Child death/endangerment: All the main characters are teenagers who are threatened with death or receive life threatening injuries on the page.

epeolatrist's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Death and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Slavery, and Trafficking

shannolse's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

Multiple Points of View, all with unique voices! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Ableism, Violence, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

solenn31'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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking

jess_always_reading's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

5.0

An absolutely awesome read! After years of grad school readings then a year of non-fiction, this book brought back that feeling of wanting to devour a story. 

The characters are wonderfully complex and (mostly) lovable and Bardugo has managed to capture the fun of a heist whilst keeping us on our toes with twists and turns.

Additionally, there is great disability representation. With the disabled characters being portrayed far beyond their disability and without disability being used as something to be 'overcome', forgotten at key moments, or inspiration porn. It just is, just as we disabled folks just are. 

10/10 a must-read for fantasy lovers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, and Trafficking

fennish's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Slavery, Trafficking, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic