Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

105 reviews

nehaslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

3.75

it took me so long to read this bc of school but it was heart wrenching and beautiful while being easy to read and comforting

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

classicism, victim blaming, discrimination, persecution for witchcraft, PTSD, self-sacrifice, sickness, scars, explosion, knife violence, physical assault and poisoning captivity, blackmail, hostage situation, exile and banishment

elysh_kaye's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Minor: Rape

maryjames's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing and Rape

rxby_lamby's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

clauglezzz_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.25

Def my favourite of the trilogy. I finally conected with the characters completely and the dynamics between them were great. At last i conected with the main love story. Lots of sad moments tho my poor nikolai

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

gayghostprince's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Stalking, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

thatbookishworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

mustnotblink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.5

Siege and Storm ended with Alina defeated and struggling for hope; Ruin and Rising is her journey figuring out how to move forward. Things are dark in Ravka and every move the Sun Summoner’s party makes is on a razor’s edge.

People die. Some friendships are strained while others are shown to be steel and the fate of Ravka is decided. Without spoiling anything, I can say it is an intense ride! I read it in one sitting.

Bonus Points: Queer content treated like its normal where none of the known queers are buried in the end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and War

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

This rounded out the trilogy pretty well! The beginning in the White Cathedral and the caverns was a bit slow but it picked up speed afterward, and the last sentence devastated me. I'm also relatively anti-Malina but I will say I liked them most in this book out of all three.

I had also read Six of Crows previously, and I was so thoroughly under the impression through the entire trilogy that Alina would die in the Fold, and probably Mal with her. So what actually happened, from the amazing twist of Mal as the third amplifier to Alina's survival with her death faked and power distributed outward and lost, all hit me in a whirlwind. I feel like I'm still processing all the end events but all in all feel like it was a solid and cathartic conclusion!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Rape