Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Crown and Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout

34 reviews

folkofthebook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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? No

3.5

While enjoyable, my main complaint is the repetition in this book. JLA has a tendency to repeat jokes, phrases, and reiterate information a bit much in all her series, but this book really pushes it for me. Of course Poppy's going to have a million questions, she was raised in an extremely controlled environment and part of a society that's been lied to for centuries about their entire history and even the present day. Give her a break.
At this point, I'm feeling like books 1 & 2 should've been combined, and I have a feeling I'm going to think this book and book 4 should as well. The series needn't be drawn out the way she's deciding to go because it's sacrificing the quality of storytelling for readers in favor of selling more books.

I know you love to write JLA but I'm begging you to hire a new developmental editor again.

That being said, I still love Cas and Poppy (and no I won't lose my shit

when there's threesome/throuple Joining.

)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Minor: Child death, War, Confinement, and Death of parent

hannalizzy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

4.75

This book was incredible. My favorite in the series so far! Poppy’s character development in this book is fierce, and one to admire. There were a few jaw dropping moments where I audibly gasped, and I burned through the book very quickly because I could hardly put it down. Casteel and Poppy are one of my favorite fictional couples ever and Poppy is SO badass. I CANNOT wait for the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, War, and Kidnapping

vladtheimpaler's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Rape

taylorjayne's review against another edition

This book man, this book! 

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It was terrible. 

The main characters were reduced to characterisations of themselves and ANY fun quirks or qualities about them were removed.


They had sex after she resurrected a DEAD CHILD I mean I don't even know if she cleaned the blood off her hands, it was gross. 

Anyways I DNF'd at 59% and this book put me in the biggest reading slump for months.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Blood

jessannderson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Definitely my favourite book of the series, poppy actually stopped asking questions every line. The ending is such a cliffhanger but I love poppy’s character development.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and War

studytea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

ninaakh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

The plot and characters are great, but there's also smut, so read it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Grief

samchase112's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Whew, what a wild ride. As usual, the beginning and end of this book was crazy--so much happening, so much changing, excitement in every scene. The middle.......not as much. Poppy loves her endless conversations, sexy times, and...interesting coping style (aka she just brushes past big info and focuses on tiny info). It is painfully obvious that JLA did not mean to make this a six-book series, and is legitimately making things up as she goes along. And don't get me started on the names that have to be close enough to the normal way but also ~unique~. But I can't pretend that I didn't enjoy a good portion of this book. Yes, most of my jaw dropping was more of the "what the hell is happening?? this makes no sense" variety, but some of it was genuinely fun. I went into this book not intending to continue under any circumstances, and I'm leaving it wanting to read the next book, and excited to see what happens!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Child death, Murder, Violence, and Sexual content

sierraechobravo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

aenidpons's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence