Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Bright and the Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski

9 reviews

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Animal death, Blood, Abandonment, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, and Violence

libbygriffin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

This had so much potential. A journey to claim a valuable item from a deadly mountain. I love journey books, and I saw the potential in this. What dampened my feelings towards this book was the main character. Her choices were consistently stupid and badly thought out. She assumes and only sees things on the surface level, and doesn’t think deeper into it before coming to a conclusion- which results in many misunderstandings. 


Spoilers!!!!


I was definitely not expecting a “Descent” style monster to be in this book! So eerie!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Genocide, Abandonment, and Death

Moderate: Slavery and Ableism

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

winterteufel's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Torture and Religious bigotry

pvbobrien's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Death

Minor: Torture, Body horror, Sexual harassment, and Ableism

clairew97's review

DNF’d this book 94 pages in. Absolutely hated it. The main character is so annoying, hates another girl on the trip for no reason, insta love, literally no explanation for anything that happens, questions nothing and the world building was nonexistent pretty much. Literally made zero sense and I couldn’t get any further. I’m upset about it because I was really looking forward to this one but not for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

criticalbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Violence, Grief, and Gaslighting

imds's review

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Death, and Xenophobia

sarahsbooklife's review

adventurous sad 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

3.5

Started off slow but got better as the book went on. There was a bit of a dip in the middle when things slowed down and the group reached the mountain. But the pace suddenly picked up and the ending was really good. I'm definitely excited to see where the story will go in the next book and what will happen to the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Infidelity

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Murder

Minor: Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, and War

egurgens's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

First of all: I absolutely loved this book. The idea, the execution, is just fantastic. Plot twists, political plots, gods, monsters, some horror, romance, family, ugh. Just so good. The only thing that I struggled with is that there was a lot of down time

the mountain

where there could have been more plot. Also Valerias main character trait is her anger, which sorta makes sense, but I would’ve liked some more variation. I definitely need the next book, like, now. But it doesn’t come out until next March 😥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Torture, Violence, and War