Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

76 reviews

kasssidyy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Absolutely loved this. I haven’t read a fantasy that has kept me turning pages this quickly in quite a while, especially a YA.
Some things were slow, kivas internal narration got a bit messy and boring at times but I truly didn’t see most of the twists coming - and I TRIED guessing. I cannot wait to read the rest 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Self harm

theoceanrose's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Torture and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment and Grief

sunsetcity's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Torture

vmknmy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

perfection

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Murder, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

teiscool12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Rape, and War

mspilesofpaper's review

dark 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? No

1.0

Just no.

Utterly predictable (even for YA), has tons of questionable content for YA (rape, self-harm, abuse, drugs and overdosing, murder, torture etc).

Love interest and main character give me major Gary and Mary Sue vibes. Of course, they’re white and LI is the only one with a specific and rare eye colour. Blue/gold which gives me Maas' vibes (Aelin is described to have a similar eye colour, I think).

The logic of „if you’re a super dangerous criminal who might have magic, you’re forced to participate in this trial series that includes all four elements and if you survive, you can leave by law“ still baffles me. If you don’t have magic, you die. Spoiler: magic is super rare and belongs to the royals.

Irking extra: the maps are not ebook friendly. World-building is lacking as it is but the maps are also useless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Self harm, and Child death

Moderate: Rape, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty

klc17's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Self harm, Child death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Death, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Murder

kynajayne's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I really liked this one. The main character healing in a prison was a good twist on the hard labour camp. The ending was very unexpected when

both Jaren and Kiva’s identities were revealed

. It makes me wonder what’s to come. I also just like to idea of a healer that works with a garden of remedies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Confinement, and Torture

Minor: Child death

tkatt20's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.5

A warning for anyone looking to read this: this is a very trigger heavy book, if there are sensitive topics that you need to avoid i would probably avoid this one since pertty much everything is brought up at least once. Please check content warnings before reading. 

Im kind of lost on what I feel about this book. It was good, but I tend to be a detective when reading, so I was searching for every plot twist and I solved 90% of this book within the first 50 or so pages. That didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book, it just made it seem very slow paced for me when I usually like quicker fantasy novels. The premise and the storyline was very interesting, I lost a little on the world building, but considering the entire book is set in a prison that the MC arrived at when she was 7, it kind of makes sense. The characters were interesting enough to hold my attention, and for being only 17, the MC was very mature and resourceful. I would have loved to see more of the side characters and some of the little details of the Prison more fleshed out but it was alright. Everything was mostly saved by the ending in my opinion.
    If you're the type of person who doesn't search for plot twists and just wants a fun and quick read then this would be perfect for you. This checks off all the boxes of a basic YA fantasy and it was definitely worth the time. The ending was amazing and I hope the next one does more in terms of world building.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Torture, Violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Mental illness, and Rape

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Medical content, Physical abuse, Vomit, Chronic illness, and Addiction

Minor: Sexism, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Bullying, and Child death

stephaniemcuervo's review

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Murder, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent

Moderate: Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual assault, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Torture, and War