Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne

77 reviews

zeroschatz's review against another edition

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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Slavery, Violence, Torture, and Trafficking

Moderate: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

voidthearea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Kidnapping, Self harm, Slavery, Death of parent, Blood, War, Death, and Violence

karabear1813's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Blood

winglesswarrior's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

5.0

THIS WAS INCREDIBLE. WHY HAS NO ONE FORCED ME TO READ THIS?! THE HUNGER OF THE GODS NEXT. LETS GO.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Slavery and Kidnapping

bookslucyking's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, and Slavery

orvillefartenbacher's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Child abuse

tatitab's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

inkwing's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

 So much potential but then it is just one battle scene after another.
I liked the overall theme and the three main characters' plot lines, each driven by their individual motives.

The book takes a lot of time starting off, about a quarter of the book where not much is happening. And the main story was too foreseeable, and just too much hack and slash.

Not bad in general, but nothing that made me want to read the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Kidnapping, Death, Blood, and Slavery

bitter_critter's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This definitely reads as the first book of a trilogy. It's interesting, keeps you hooked, and is heavy on the world-building. The characters, however, have not yet had a chance to grow significantly, though the last hundred pages or so really set up the stage for significant growth in the following books. That said, you do get strong insights as to their current personalities, ideals, and values and I love this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Slavery

Those with god in their lineage are oppressed.

One of the main characters turns out to be one of these people and grapples with their worldview.