Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

218 reviews

aviery's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-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

Graphic: Blood, Death, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: War, Sexual assault, Sexism, Murder, Misogyny, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

senseioftheinternet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child death, Violence, Suicide, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Gore, and Death

Moderate: War, Sexism, Body horror, Terminal illness, Grief, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Violence, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Cancer, Adult/minor relationship, and Grief

Minor: Genocide

itsaas_r's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, and Death

Minor: Sexual assault

lurille's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I loved almost everything about this book. It was such an easy read and the adventure was only a week long. The pace was to my utmost taste as well. Some holes were answered just as quick as I question if there will ever be an answer for them, while some were not i.e., I still am quite unsure why and how the Agon really started for it feels like the book greatly lacked an explanation for it—I wanted to know more, I wanted a more in-depth knowledge about the root cause of the Agon, as well as information about the gods and goddesses present in the story.

There were so much opportunities to create a deeper world on each characters—particularly Castor. I loved him ever since I first met his character, therefore, my expectations were high on the explanation of how he became a

god when he was once a sick boy who's on the verge of dying and then all things happened, he suddenly became the false Apollo

. I waited for a long time to know the explanation behind what really happened, yet I was only given a fraction of what I had expected.

Nevertheless, I loved how diverse the characters were, especially having an LGBTQIA+ couple. I also had few gasps as I read the plot twist and  honestly, nothing could have made me ready from it. 

Overall, it was good primarily because it's my cup of tea—gods and goddesses, female heroine, gays and all. I'm in for these tags haha.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Torture, Blood, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gaslighting, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

lqvekanej's review against another edition

adventurous tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Grief, Violence, Ableism, and Death of parent

merle13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

Moderate: Child death

pagesbycaroline's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Gore, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Minor: Gore and Pedophilia

anhe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Completely different to what I expected. Greek myths and deities reimagined in our modern world. I liked the world that was created and the little hints and jokes to myths. At times I was confused and wondering whether I had missed some important information. You find out about the world and it's history and rules throughout the book so the first about 100 pages I had no idea what was going on and felt very confused. As a mystery it was good and you got to know bits and pieces of the backstory every now and again.
It was much more violent than I expected. There are a lot of graphic fight scenes and deaths.
The ending felt a bit rushed and abrupt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault

cassy_smith's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

Really enjoyed the start of the book. The story drew me in right away. However that draw didn’t stay. While the book always kept my attention while reading, I forgot about it when I put the book done. I didn’t need to know what happened to these characters. Still a solid, fun read. Kinda if about the last few chapters though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Sexism, Death, Violence, Suicide, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death of parent, Pedophilia, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Body horror