Reviews tagging 'Death'

Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan

7 reviews

mandi7mm's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, and Murder

Minor: War

instalovewithbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Fuck, I loved this book. 

I knew this book was going to hurt me but I didn't realize how much and I didn't know exactly where it was going to go. I plan to read a book or two and then jump into Blessed Monsters.

So, so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Gore, Blood, and Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Grief

ka_ke's review

On today’s episode of books that did not deserve or need to be a trilogy… Wicked Saints was great, it was unique, fresh and exciting. Ruthless gods is not. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Slavery, Classism, Colonisation, Grief, and Xenophobia

lillianreadsalot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Torture, Self harm, Murder, and Gore

lavieboheme215's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

booksthatburn's review against another edition

I started reading this a week after reading the first book, WICKED SAINTS, and I don't know what's happening or why I should care. I mention the timeframe to make it clear that my confusion is not a result of waiting a long time between reading the first book and picking up the sequel. I'm perfectly fine being confused by a book, there are some I've praised for being fascinating while also spending a long time being largely incomprehensible. But I just can't get into the central motivation of "girl must save demon nightmare boy from something (???) by doing something (???)". I can handle a book being boring for a little while, and I'm fine with confusion, but this combination of unclear stakes, revelations without enough tension, general lack of context, and a plot I just can't get into means I'm going ahead and stopping now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, Gore, Body horror, Murder, and Death

sapphicread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Death

Minor: Sexism