Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

41 reviews

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

I enjoyed this book a lot. Like a lot a lot. I don't like to admit it out loud but I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic and this fed into that so well. It's got everything I love, fantasy and fairytale and romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, and Classism

julianavaz's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death, Murder, Torture, Sexual content, and Grief

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Drug use, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Violence, Sexual content, Grief, and Toxic friendship

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Grief, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Torture, and Gaslighting

gonnachangethislater's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

I'm not sure the sudden addition of vampires two thirds into the book was entirely necessary 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Death, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Torture and Violence

Minor: Self harm

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

(Spoiler review) when this book started off I thought: interesting…let’s see where this goes, then okay it’s very fantastical and floaty and Alice and wonderland-y, then I thought it was getting weirder but an easy quick read, then we started getting more excited and more things were lining up then it was quite exciting and that ending? Ooooh I leaned back and looked at Sean and was like. That’s an ending. I loved Evangelines hope, I HATED Marisol and her bitch ass mom, I didn’t care for Luke, and Chaos was interesting. Lala was an unexpected character and the Prince of Hearts was loveable but also way into blood for a fate that wasn’t a vampire. And what’s with the apples?? The door smiling at the end was wicked, and Evangeline realizing her strength and heroism was a lovely touch. Ummmm yeah I’m excited to see where book two goes and I guess now I have to read Caraval 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Grief

wrenxavier's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

folkofthebook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Spin-offs are always risky; you never know how they're going to measure up to the originals. I'll tell you right now - Once Upon a Broken Heart exceeded my expectations.

We return to Caraval's whimsical world to follow fan-favorite Jacks and our new heroine, Evangeline, Rose gold-haired Evangeline is a dreamer, but not gullible or helpless. Jacks is back to his heartless ways in the most infuriating yet intoxicating game of push and pull as we try to figure out if (and maybe haplessly hope) the heartless Prince of Hearts can indeed (or even cares to) redeem himself. We learn more about the Fates' history and the mysterious North and its magic as we veer from the game of Caraval into new lands (but not without a quick cameo with Scarlett & Tella first!).

Garber's imagination never fails to blow my mind. Eccentric and vivid characters, poetic writing, hopeless romance, magic, the epic twists & turns - everything I loved about Caraval comes back and doesn't fail to delight once again. I never know where Garber is going to take me in her writing, but I know I'm going to love every step of the way.

I feel like I've been totally spoiled by self-publishing authors of the world of KU I've been residing in lately who tend to pump their books out quickly because now I have to wait (who knows how long) for OUBH2 *crying emoji*

Until then, guess I'll pick up a book on the color blue...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement and Grief

Minor: Bullying and Death of parent