Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

17 reviews

yourfavouritebookworm's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood

Moderate: Sexual violence

natekka's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

awildekazappears's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

aweso10's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

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leigh bardugo is SUCH A QUEEN. i liked this more than six of crows just by a bit- i liked a bit of romance added, the world building and character development was phenomenal as always- i found myself rooting for Alina and Mal the whole way through but at the same time the Darkling is such a sexy forbidden fruit type of character i love it ahaha. definitely satisfied my recent fantasy itch.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

hjb_128's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, War

Minor: Sexual violence

yasidiaz's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark 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

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When Alina Starkov unleashes a dormant power she is taken to train among the Grisha, the powerful elite army of Ravka. Longing for a place to belong and overwhelmed with the feeling of being Ravka’s last flick of hope, she gives it her all. However, she soon finds out the court is not what it seems and she must be careful who she trusts.

It has been a long time since I have read a YA fantasy like this. I’m surprised it took me so long to read this because this genre was my thing back when I was 15 and 16. Now my tastes have shifted significantly. I focus now more on romance, specifically queer romance, so being fully honest, I worried if I still enjoyed this genre. And as it turns out, I still very much do.

The amount of effort put into worldbuilding made me realize how much I missed a good fantasy book. I loved all the little details, the differences between different areas of Ravka, and the political complexities of the court and the Grisha (although I hope to get more of that in the next book). 

The Darkling was also a very interesting character and I liked how the book kept you on your toes with his character. In contrast, I found it so easy to trust Mal. From the moment he first appeared he became my boy and wanted to give him everything.

Alina was a great protagonist as well. I love when characters are flawed and you see them grow as the story progresses. However, I do hope in the next and other books her powers and strength go beyond her love for Mal.

This was a good book to get back into the high fantasy genre and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment

noras_library's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book made me feel more than any book has made me feel in a long time. The idea of the book is amazing and the execution is perfect. I loved the writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Death of parent, War

Minor: Sexual content

casdelvo's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts

themiscyra_anna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, War

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Torture

Minor: Child death, Rape

zoecrepp's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual harassment

In this book sexual harassment, SA and attempted SA all occur. The first is mentioned by the reader who states that her best friend’s friend tried to “paw at her”. Additionally, a woman discusses the ongoing sexual abuse she has faced/is facing from an authority figure. Also, the main character is attacked by a man but she is able to get away before he assaults her. Lastly, the main character is “seduced” or manipulated by a different authority figure…she is interested in him at first but is then angry at him once she realizes he is evil. After this revelation he still kisses her which makes her incredibly uncomfortable though she doesn’t reject him in that moment.