Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

19 reviews

veskumelooni's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

A sleeping beauty retelling! With Persian influence?! Wow I really enjoyed this! I love how the romance was subtle but had a nice feel to it and that the parent wasn’t entirely useless and that a man wasn’t the one to step through and save the day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Biphobia and Homophobia

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder

esme_may's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I wish I had liked this more! The last hundred or so pages are well-paced and gripping, but I don't think the previous 200 are worth it. I loved the concept but I found it difficult to get invested, especially since the relationship isn't given much room to develop. I think this book needed to be a bit longer to flesh it out.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror and Blood

sel_'s review

adventurous reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

I loved this book! I bought it without any expectations just out of curiosity and couldn't put it down anymore. 

For anyone who likes fairy tales and the like, this is a wonderful read. 

The characters are flawed in a way that makes them relatable and it shows that there is not simply good and evil but that the world is much more complex than that.

The story has a satisfying ending and all in all I think it's a wonderfully casual read with enough substance and suspense to keep me hooked. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad slow-paced

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

4.25

Expect this book to be about 40% sadder than you are initially expecting and that will give you a good sense of this book. The tale is well written and while there are the usual difficulties in following a high fantasy world the plot explains nearly all the questions are reader might have. Something I really liked about the book is how important stories and legends are to Soraya and how her love of legends helped inform the reader about world-building.

I appreciate that the book tackles such a complex issue as compulsive heteronormativity (without calling it that obviously), but by making the villain of the story her heterosexual option he was humanized to the point that he was no longer a fun villain.  It is hard to hate such a dark villain when you can see him as just a broken human, and then I kind of hated myself for not being able to hate such a clearly evil man.

I read the book specifically because I wanted a sapphic fantasy, and while this does technically hit the mark I wanted so much more from this love story. It needed so much more gay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

hyliansee's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Torture, Blood, and Cannibalism

jojo_'s review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Death, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Abandonment