Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat

16 reviews

lauwbinx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, War, Suicide, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Slavery, Incest, and Emotional abuse

rhi_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

teagstime's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

The first book was absolutely perfect- and this one is, somehow, even moreso. The political intrigue was INCREDIBLE; there were plays here that caught me completely off guard and made my heart flutter at the sheer amount of thought & foreshadowing! So so good! And so so messed up!!

Impeccable dialogue and characters, as always- I just adore Damen and Laurent's relationship progression here so much. From hatred to tense allyship to hesitant friendship to the fragile care at the end here.... it's just impeccable ❤️ 
Truly such a joy, I'm literally buying book 3 this instant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Blood, Slavery, War, and Sexual content

Moderate: Confinement and Suicide

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Child death, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

paholizz's review

adventurous dark fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Colonisation, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Incest, Alcohol, and Drug use

dontaadme's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Death, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicide

louisallama's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The characters, relationships, and plot twists in this series are absolutely phenomenal. My jaw was on the floor several times. The best part is that all of the twists are foreshadowed and well earned. 
Also I want to break Laurent down into a primordial goo, put him through a centrifuge, study the resulting pellet under a microscope and do chromatography on the supernatant. I'm so normal about him. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Child abuse

kyliereads341's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gore, Sexual content, and Slavery

Minor: Pedophilia

diana_raquel's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

“To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.”

As serialized books go, there's something called "second-book syndrome", wherein a writer fails to write a second book that will live up to the first one.  Well, this book doesn't suffer from this syndrome. It was better than the first, even. This book is the one that shows that the arguments used for criticizing in a negative way the first fell apart (I addressed these arguments in my review of Captive Prince). The relationship between the main characters starts to be a more equal one and the plot continues to be interesting as the first one, with a well-structured structure and plot twists that fall into place at the right moment. 

This is truly one of my favorite series! I completely recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, Gore, Kidnapping, Slavery, Torture, War, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Suicide, Child abuse, and Rape

Minor: Infidelity and Pregnancy

cait's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Slavery, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Blood, Bullying, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Sexual assault

20sidedbi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

1.25

This is still a poorly written book that handles topics of sexual violence extremely badly. But the plot finally seems to matter and the characters are starting to feel like people instead of caricatures.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, Slavery, Violence, War, Trafficking, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Homophobia