Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

19 reviews

emesfiz_28's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

_piercingwords_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

I am in love with the descriptive writing style and the sassy humour in this. The world is incredibly well built, the characters as well.
While the many footnotes could be very entertaining, they interrupted the reading flow a bit at times.
I'm definitely gonna get the other books of the series.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

frenchbookslover's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

hailie_lloy'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Rape

sleepytessa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cursing and Vomit

vespertine_moth's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.25

I enjoyed this very much! I would compare it to Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, but by the end of the first novel you can tell they won't be taking the same path past the first novels in the series. The characters were very well developed with their own personalities, but sometimes they play one-note, however this is only book 1/3! The plot was somewhat predictable but takes some interesting turns you wouldn't otherwise expect! This book opens

with a sex scene, so if that's not for you take it into consideration! I was able to run past it very quickly but I would say that it was somewhat important. Other sex scenes in the novel I wouldn't deem necessary to read in full so they can easily be skipped

.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Torture, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

One of the races of people in this series has some cultural appropriation of natives, specifically with body/war tattoos. Not specifically mentioned to be modelled after any specific people but it is implied to be referencing darker skinned natives when the author is not himself.

oliverreeds's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

i didn't like the sexualization of the teenagers in this book. the writing is good; the narration is incredibly unique in a good way so the book only lost points in my book for underage kids being wayyyyy too sexualized. the book (in my opinion i haven't read the others yet) would be ultimately unchanged if the author had aged up the kids 4-7 years (or if they just didn't write an explicit sex scenes between minors)

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Rape, Slavery, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

don't read this book if you aren't cool with blood, gore, murder and death! they introduction is not joking!

mothman19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, and Torture

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Vomit

ashlyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, and Grief

Minor: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, and Vomit