Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

5 reviews

cnannery19's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Kidnapping, War, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Violence, Gaslighting, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Torture

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gore, Body horror, Gun violence, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Child death, Drug use, and Torture

Minor: Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Sexism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Incest, Cannibalism, and Sexual content

themiscyra_anna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, War, Self harm, Violence, Gaslighting, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

Minor: Death of parent and Suicide

Rape / sexual violence is in the past but discussed at length featuring the aggressor and the victim in a small court-like setting

bookswstella's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious slow-paced

• 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? Yes

3.0

I didn’t get the ”wow-feeling” but it was good! Between all of the three books I liked Siege and Storms the most!

In like the end of Siege and storms I started to wondering whether if I wanted Alina to end up with Mal or Nikolai, and that thought followed me through Ruin and Rising too!

I still don’t know if I would have liked it more if Alina ended up with Nikolai.

My favorite character from R&R is definitely Misha!! I adore the the small little moments when Mal is With Misha, especially when Misha is curled up against Mal! Those moments make me like Mal more!

I think all three of these books had pretty long boring parts, like in my opinion the book was kinda only thrilling when it was ”war”. Those boring parts was what didn’t give the triology the ”Wow-feeling”.

But I love the moments where the darkling shows himself vulnerable because that makes him more human which I like. 
And I also love that you get to know his real name! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Abandonment, Grief, and Slavery

kaylamoran's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

Definitely better than Siege and Storm, but not nearly as good as the Six of Crows duology.  I didn't especially love the ending, but overall it was a good conclusion to a good series!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Rape, Kidnapping, and Infidelity