Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

46 reviews

mayareadsxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gore, War, Drug use, and Violence

joensign's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Toxic relationship

asheinthebadlands's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

4.5

I don't care what anyone says. This is the best book in the trilogy and I love the ending. It always makes me cry. I love these characters soooo much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Toxic relationship, and War

andatherrin's review

adventurous tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder

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

nisha_27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing and Sexual assault

safety_pin's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Murder, Grief, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Physical abuse and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual content

theirgracegrace's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Death, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Gun violence, Grief, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Stalking, Torture, and Toxic relationship

sammymilfort's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

lish_e's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

“Someone to mourn me. (…) Don’t let me be alone.”

Definitely better than the second book. 
Still, I didn’t like the way it ended. Also, I would have liked more appearances from the Darkling and from Nikolai. Both characters had more potential and carried a lot of scenes for me.
Despite that it had intriguing moments that made me continue to read and it was easy to get into it. 
As a whole the trilogy was a pleasant read and overall, I enjoyed it.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Rape, and Grief