Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Shadow Wand by Laurie Forest

4 reviews

melchncookies's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Animal death, Sexism, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Slavery, Murder, War, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Misogyny

ka_ke's review

adventurous dark slow-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

5.0

An incredible continuation of the Black Witch Chronicles. That being said

IF YVAN IS STILL ALIVE IM GONNA LOSE IT

Ellorens development continues to impress as she becomes a fully-formed character. The world building is so beautiful I wish I could be there! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Grief, Violence, War, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Cultural appropriation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, and Animal death

Moderate: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Genocide

Minor: Cursing, Sexual violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, and Sexual harassment

braiths_book_thoughts's review

adventurous dark sad tense slow-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

3.0

"The future belongs to those who can move past their preconceived, rigid lines."

This book took me a little longer than the ones before it. I struggled after the first chapter due to the murder of a group of Dryads which included a baby. Right before their death they were in pain and I really dislike that kind of thing in my books. The death of children automatically loses a star for me. It is one of my biggest turn-offs (the same applies for animal torture!)

Once I was able to move past that, I very much enjoyed reading this!

The stakes were high and the characters were in danger.

Unfortunately, due to the plot line we didn't get to see a lot of the regular group of characters which was sad. I did miss them!

There were a few chapters at the start and end of the book from povs that weren't Elloren, but the main focus of the book was Elloren.

The downside to this book was that it did feel like a filler book. Not a lot realistically happened and we seemed stuck for a lot of it.

Elloren this book was very irritating as well. Constantly moaning about how weak she was and how uncontrolled her magic was. It became repetitive and I was getting very frustrated with her.

This is a romance heavy book and I felt the romance took over the plot, so if that is your thing, this book will be great for you. 

I am excited to start the next one as, even though I feel like this was the filler book (think a montage of character development), it ended in a place where you can tell the plot will really pick up again .

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Child death

mypatronusisajedi's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Child death, Classism, Racism, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Physical abuse, Blood, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, and War