Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

14 reviews

tomi_delano's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring tense fast-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

4.0

An emotional rollercoaster from start to finish. I fell more and more in love with familiar characters and some new ones. I got very angry at other familiar characters. Spectacular writing from Leigh Bardugo as usual. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, and Xenophobia

Minor: Body shaming and Bullying

courteneygalla28's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Xenophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body shaming, and Child death

kaylamoran's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

4.0

Better than Shadow and Bone, but not as good as Six of Crows.  I'm glad Leigh stuck with the multiple perspectives set up, as I much prefer it.  However I will say that one of the storylines was much less interesting than the other ones, at least for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

emmagrace's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Drug abuse, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Drug use, and Gore

Moderate: Genocide, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage, Cursing, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry