Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Reckless (svensk utgåva) by Lauren Roberts

134 reviews

kendra_taylors_version's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

notfastreader_14's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is probably one of the best books I have ever read. I cried at the end for some reason. It's not really sad but it is if that makes sense. Also I would just like to say, I have been a Kitt hater since the beginning. I'm gonna go continue crying now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol

lakinglaze's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-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

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This book was just fantastic! As if I need to love Kai even more. Just a wonderful character! How even are we going to be left with an ending like that though? Counting down the days to Fearless! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

allyrosereadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

mythxcally's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny 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

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This book was much better than the first. Not quite the carbon copy of Red Queen x Hunger Games that Powerless was. 

I really enjoyed the "enemies" to lovers trope, since they weren't really enemies at the end of Powerless. The dynamic between Kai and Pae was very loveable and was very enjoyable to read along with some classic tropes such as the one bed. 

Didn't really like the slight miscommunication trope that was happening but that might just be me. Doesn't really deserve 5 stars in my mind but the ending was very good and I will most certainly be reading the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Death of parent

marissagero's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Grief

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

Minor: Sexism

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I wanted to carry on with this series because this series has been all over the book community and trusting Booktok hits can either be hit or miss and this one was a hit.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Paedyn Grey, and she has survived the purging trials, but she has killed the King and people now know was born as an Ordinary. She has also kickstarted a Resistance through the kingdom of Ilya. She is on the run from the one person she had wanted to run to. She is determined to be free from Ilya and away from Kai and Kitt, but will she be able to stay one foot in front of Kai. The second point of view is Kai Azer, and he is now official Ilya’s enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt, the new King. He has vowed to find Paedyn and bring her to justice. As long as he can keep his feelings in check for her because once he finds her, she will be sentenced to death. Across the deadly Scorches, and deep into the hostile city of Dor, Kai purses the one person he wishes he didn’t have to. But in a city with Elites, the balance between the hunter and hunted shifts – and the battle between duty and desire is deadly.  

This book was brilliantly written, and I enjoyed this book. I loved the characters – Kai and Paedyn were hilarious separately and together and how they were avoiding each other but then they didn’t want to avoid each other and wanted to be around each other. Paedyn could kick my ass and I would thank her for it. I love how blunt she was and how she didn’t give a shit who she was talking to. I loved her being in disgust as Shadow and yet she was kicking the ass of grown-ass men. Kai was still a golden retriever, and you knew he wasn’t going to kill Paedyn no matter what and how jealous he was getting over random ass strangers flirting with Paedyn. That man still needs to learn to hide his emotions better as he was a complete open book. The whole “let’s pretend” was so adorable but you could tell that Kai wasn’t pretending.  

My only issue was it was all still a bit predictable, just like the Maze Runner and the Scorch. The different being that WCKD was Kitt and that they didn’t want to kill her because they had other plans where Paedyn was just like if you are going to kill me, kill me quickly.  

The ending was cruel again and now I have to wait until NEXT YEAR for the next book. I hope Kitt doesn’t become cruel even though he was betrayed because it will just hurt my heart. Even though we could see glimpses of his cruelness hopefully he ends up standing up with Paedyn and fixing everything in time.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Torture

hxlleann's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism