Reviews tagging 'Death'

Queen of Myth and Monsters by Scarlett St. Clair

42 reviews

ivylucia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

WTF?! This book is a roller coaster ride and the ending is… ugghh. The spicy scenes are A1 but there’s too much happening for true character development and too much to unpack. Reading the 3rd when it’s out bc I must know what happens next… but also, what the actual 🤬

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Murder, Gore, War, Misogyny, and Blood

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

blue_kiwi93's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Grief, Blood, and War

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, Animal death, and Vomit

kmayn227's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Disappointing. They fight and have sec the whole book. mo relationship development

If anything they seem worse together

The plot barely progresses and is confusing at that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Grief, Blood, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

tamaraloraine89's review

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

4.0

Loved the continuation of the story.  There was 1 chapter in the middle that the transition from one place to another was oddly abrupt and the end explanation was left a little too open ended and then just cut to a feel good final chapter of later on,  felt like there was a chapter missing in these 2 places to round the story off. Other than that,  I loved the story and the journey.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, and Rape

ksanderss's review

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

4.0

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, War, Blood, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage

kbowles24's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Murder, Gore, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Cursing, Death, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, War, and Pregnancy

julesfrigault's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Sexual assault, Violence, Rape, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

baybeegirl's review against another edition

For me, this kind of kept building up to me disliking their relationship more and more until I just checked out.

Listen. If Soren literally tells Isolde that she should run because Adrian is going to go nuclear and she goes "omg no he would never hurt me" after 9 HOURS of them fighting because he kept being inconsiderate and/or hurting her "on accident," I am DNF-ing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Torture

Minor: War

sha's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

2.5

I can’t believe I’m saying this but just maybe too much sex?? Hahaha but seriously it’s almost every chapter.

These books with their plot twists! 😯

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, War, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, and Blood

luna_lovelace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

From the very beginning I was trying to read carefully to watch for any clues on who the traitor was and

I did not expect there to be two! I was shocked on who it was, expecting someone else.

I had my suspicions, but I just didn't want it to be true because I grew to love them. It speaks volumes on how Isolde must be feeling about their betrayal. 

Adrian's abilities come to light and

I had no idea how powerful he really was. The way he was able to control the mind of a vampire, but only those he turns. So of course, that's not very useful with the war that is going on! Still, I wished this ability showed up more often than his ability to read minds.

I am just glad the main characters are not a Mary Sue, there's definitely a lot of questionable decisions they made that made me see them in a different light, but as the story progresses it's hard to not feel for them.

Expect to do a lot of gasping because so much goes on in such a short amount of time that it has your head spinning trying to put it all together.

People she holds dear to her heart betray her for "the greater good", while people like Killian and Safira are starting to earn her trust.

I am stunned on how much character development Killian and Safira have on this book. I can't wait to read how it continues to unfold!

One thing that was a bit difficult to understand was when Isolde re-lived Yesenia's memories because it was not easy to distinguish if Isolde was in the present or past. I had to re-read a couple times to grasp what time period the author was talking about. Maybe if it was italicized or written as a chapter it would have been easier to decipher. 

Overall, I can't wait for the third book, Adrian and Isolde went through so much already, I can't wait to continue reading about her journey to conquer despite everything!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Murder, Violence, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Toxic friendship, Rape, Cursing, and War

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexism, and Child death