Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

60 reviews

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Murder, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Minor: Classism, Sexual violence, and Racism

hounds_tooth's review against another edition

dark

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Animal death

hazel_oat's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Animal death, Medical content, Kidnapping, Violence, Abandonment, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Homophobia, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Racism, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Slavery

crossingtheratterlin's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Transphobia, Misogyny, and Kidnapping

door's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

pendragon243's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

sommermeyer27's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Murder and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Transphobia

raptorq's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Animal death

Moderate: Sexual content and Medical content

Minor: Sexism, Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual harassment

blewballoon's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

I'm giving this a 3 because I can see how it could work for the right reader, but unfortunately it didn't work for me. The fairy narrator's commentary is mostly what ruined my reading experience. I didn't find it funny or enhancing to the story, and it broke my immersion constantly. I feel like I can understand what it was going for, but it missed the mark in my opinion and as I was reading I wished it had been cut entirely. Due to the narration, I felt very removed from the human characters in the story and it was harder to get invested in them or their plot, which is paced erratically. In addition to the pacing feeling off, I thought the romance did as well. I did not feel the chemistry, and I didn't want these women to be together. It's lamp-shaded in the text that the Duke is a Byronic broody character, but she came off as dry and cold to me rather than mysterious and deep. I don't know if maybe this just needed some more time and editing, or I wasn't in the mood, but I didn't have the good time reading this that I had wanted to. I listened to the audiobook at 1.6 speed, if I had been reading it myself I probably would have taken weeks to finish because I wasn't into it. Still a big fan of Alexis Hall and I'll definitely be reading more of their books, just not more of this series probably.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Animal death, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Violence, Death of parent, Slavery, and Transphobia

thegabecole's review

adventurous funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death