Reviews tagging 'Death'

Lightbringer by Claire Legrand

15 reviews

bee94's review

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Physical abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Death

haleybsreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

alizam's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This book crushed me, in the best and worst ways. It made me realize that, essentially, the plot of this trilogy is "things get worse, and worse, and worse". Lightbringer, and the entire Empirium Trilogy by extension, does that very well.

It is, essentially, all setup for a canonical time-travel fix-it fic.

Despite my lack of interest in any character except Corien, Remy, and Ludivine, it is a compelling story arc. This book revolves around impossible choices, and the human cost of those choices. The "happy ending", I would argue, makes the rest of the series more depressing in hindsight.

The Bad Future of Eliana's story never happened, thanks to a time travel shenanigan handwaved by the narrative, but in handwaving that it makes her whole plot arc feel pointless. Everybody dies except Eliana, Simon, and Audric, three characters I do NOT give a shit about.

And I have to bring up the problem with this book that is heavily discoursed by book twitter et large: Yes, there is explicit sex. No, it's not appropriate for the young teens who will read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Vomit, and Violence

thebooktender's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Torture, and Toxic relationship

kpburk's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Violence