Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The ​Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout

31 reviews

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Sexual content, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Death of parent

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.5

Reading the first three of the #fbaa series back to back has definitely made them run together, but what can you do?

It feels like Poppy went from the sheltered, hidden-away Maiden to a fierce, warrior princess real quick. 🤔 I continued to enjoy the banter between characters, introductions of new folks, and the deeper relationships continuing to be built up. But something in this one felt a bit off. I found myself taking longer and longer breaks between reading sessions. Maybe it has something to do with the truth bombs and shocking revelations Poppy was constantly going through. Who knows. What I do know is the ending definitely left me gearing up for the next book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Moderate: Kidnapping

eleek0609's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, War, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Cursing

mons278's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Das bisher beste Buch der Blood and Ash Reihe. Qualvoller Cliffhanger am Ende.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

shejustwantstodance's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

hapalyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense slow-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Death, Murder, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Sexual content, War, and Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Rape, Vomit, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.5

4.5 stars! What an ending! I loved every single second of this book but the ending was something else entirely. I cannot wait to pick up the next book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Violence, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Grief

jennyburchtree's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

immdanii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Child death

folkofthebook's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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? No

3.5

While enjoyable, my main complaint is the repetition in this book. JLA has a tendency to repeat jokes, phrases, and reiterate information a bit much in all her series, but this book really pushes it for me. Of course Poppy's going to have a million questions, she was raised in an extremely controlled environment and part of a society that's been lied to for centuries about their entire history and even the present day. Give her a break.
At this point, I'm feeling like books 1 & 2 should've been combined, and I have a feeling I'm going to think this book and book 4 should as well. The series needn't be drawn out the way she's deciding to go because it's sacrificing the quality of storytelling for readers in favor of selling more books.

I know you love to write JLA but I'm begging you to hire a new developmental editor again.

That being said, I still love Cas and Poppy (and no I won't lose my shit

when there's threesome/throuple Joining.

)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Minor: Child death, War, Confinement, and Death of parent