Reviews tagging 'Grief'

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

34 reviews

sweetbrinas's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

I will not emotionally recover 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

joisaddler's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Torture and Abandonment

karissahodge's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent

anton13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Like always Stephanie manages to deliver a magical, gut wrenching, heartbreaking, heart warming and plot twist full story that keeps you hooked from start to finish. I absolutely love how she writes and this is another stunning example of how amazing her writing is. I love that you get to know more about Jacks in this book and that you see the relationship between him and Evangeline evolve. The ending had me on the edge of my seat. I did not see any of it coming and I was shook. Idk how I’ll survive not knowing what happens till the third book comes out…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

amre23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Blood, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Alcohol

kefredriksen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

Even though this is a 2nd book in a series, it was better than the first! I couldn't put it down, the characters are delightfully complicated, and the ending had me screaming. Easily a fav in this genre!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I didn't like it as much as the first one, but that doesn't negate the fact that it was still interesting. I don't know if it's just her books, but for some reason for me it's when I read her books I don't fully get into it until the later parts. But it might be on me because I've only read two and I'm just now getting back into fantasy. It was interesting enough to keep me going but nothing really immersing to me. I kept wanting to hit Evangeline for being too trusting, too quickly. It's cool how consistent Stephanie keeps Jacks character. The ending was crazy. Glad there's gonna be a third book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Medical content and Gaslighting

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement and Sexual content

pooogsz's review against another edition

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

5.0

It was good, easily read it in half a day

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Torture, Stalking, Abandonment, and War