Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis

6 reviews

sayhar13's review

dark emotional 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

jaimc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Body horror, Classism, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal cruelty, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Death of parent, Animal death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Colonisation, Confinement, Bullying, and Grief

Minor: Suicide

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Classism, Death, Blood, and Animal death

Minor: Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Alcohol, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Child death, and Classism

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

4.0

An interesting look into the science of alchemy. Nedra’s descent into darkness is impressively smooth.  Although we can easily predict the events which trigger the change, the desperation slowly grows until she reaches the crisis moment. I will say I was not expecting the twist ending!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Medical content, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Colonisation, Gore, Genocide, and Murder

Minor: Religious bigotry

jenna36's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book! It is the first one in a while that has been so engaging that I almost couldn't put it down. I really love Nedra, she reminded me of Rin from The Poppy War. This whole book was honestly giving me Poppy War vibes, which is a good thing since The Poppy War is one of my all time favorite books. 

I thought I knew what was going to happen in the end but I definitely did not! It really elevates the reading experience when a book can surprise me like that. 

I went into this thinking it was going to be a romance. There are definitely romantic elements, but I would say they are the weaker part of the book. However, I think that is the point; things get so dark and emotional that the idea of romance seems silly and out of place by the end. I actually hope that Nedra ends up alone at the end of the duology. Not in a bad way, but in an independent and freeing sort of way. 

This absolutely would have been 5 stars if a certain subplot regarding the wealthy students had been explored a bit more. I am still a little but confused about what all that was about, but I have faith that I will find out in the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Death of parent

bookishkenzie's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury