Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Finale by Stephanie Garber

21 reviews

lynnloveshobi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Grief, Murder, Confinement, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Violence, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pregnancy, and Torture

cady_sass's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This was disappointing. Messy and convoluted, confusing yet boring. I was kinda down for the love triangle, actually, but if you want to effectively close the triangle you can’t make me love the bad guy and then undo all the character work in one confusing chapter. Maybe that’s an unpopular opinion? The immediate swap from “bad guy goes good for love” to “just kidding he’s 100% evil” did NOT read. Meh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Classism, Gaslighting, Blood, Confinement, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, and Violence

dannilmp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

3.5

After I found Legendary weaker in comparison to Caraval, I wasn't expecting much from Finale. I am glad to say I was pleasantly suprised. Following Scarlett and Tella in their biggest game to date, with the entire world and life as we know it at stake. Can they overcome their own weaknesses to combat something greater than both of them? 

While the start of this book may feel slower than the pacing of the previous two, it is worth perservering as the second half of the book (at least to me) felt that was where all the action was. The real beauty of this book is the bond that two sisters share and the extents they would go to in order to protect and defend each other. The cryptic mentions of almost and true endings was interesting, however I wish there was more

especially as I wanted to see the Almost Ending that The Lady Prisoner mentioned that Scarlett could have been heading for when she attempted to escape

 

Other than feeling very cringe like at some of Tella's actions and choices in the book, there was only one more section that unnerved me and while I will state the specific in the spoiler, it involves a relationship dynamic between two characters later in the book

I felt a little uncomfortable that Scarlett didn't even seem to bat an eyelid at the thought of trying to get Gavriel to love her as if she was her mother, I would have thought there would have been some repulsion or at least hesitance going about the plan

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment and Torture

anton13's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Amazing. Just the best way to end such an amazing trilogy. I’m kinda sad that it’s come to an end but so glad to have read it. These books have been like emotional support for me and I’m telling you it works. The twists and turns keep coming and despite having been worried at the end that it all wouldn’t be tied together the end was magnificent. I really recommend them to everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Alcohol, and Sexual content

caitlin033's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment and Torture

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense

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

4.25

i’m happy we got Scarlett’s POV back and i think i’m in the minority when i say i enjoyed her part of the story much more than i did Tella’s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Violence, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Torture

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

vaniavela's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Torture

filipa_maia's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Well, this last book was kinda disappointing! The ending, itself, was good (it was what I was expecting) but the entire book was just boring.

In this third book we have mixed points of view: some chapters are from Scarlet's perspective, other from Tella's. This makes the story very interesting and a nice complement to the other books, since "Caraval" was written from Scarlet's POV and "Legendary" from Tella's.

Overall the story was good: I really appreciated knowing more about the Fates and their powers, and discovering more about Paloma's life and the secret that involves Scarlet.

My problem with this trilogy (especially with this last book) is how long it takes for the story to follow through. Although I enjoyed "Lengendary" (the second book), it sort of dragged the story was well. Maybe, if we could take out of the second and third books everything that was just "filling", this could be one of the best duologies written in the fantasy genre. "Caraval" was such a good first book that I feel that the the other two are just dragging the entire trilogy.

To summarize: this is a very nice story, with good and strong female characters, that will do everything to keep each other (and the men they love) safe. But, it good be perfectly told in just two books what would make this one of the best fantasy stories I've ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Abandonment, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Emotional abuse

kaylee4321's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Kidnapping and Gore

nat29's review

adventurous challenging 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, and Confinement

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, Torture, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content