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queenie_ofthe_void's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
maelikesbooks's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Violence, and War
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Slavery
Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis
saltycoffee's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Sexism
emilyplun's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Slavery
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, and Mental illness
Minor: Grief and Medical content
baponthecob's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, and Violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Genocide, and Mental illness
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
v171's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I'd say my biggest complaint is with pacing. Way of Kings had some minor pacing issues, but I couldn't help but feel that the pacing was very lopsided in this book. For being almost 1100 pages, it is almost comical how much action was packed into the final 50 pages. I found many chapters in the beginning and middle of the book to be needlessly drawn out and uninteresting. In fact, entire chapters likely could have been cut without anything critical lost. The final 100 pages had a lot of non-stop action, which was great and very much understandable for any adventure book. But the final pages also had a TON of exposition that I feel would have been better suited peppered throughout than offloaded all at once. It was jarring to switch between fast paced scenes with long exposition conversations that didn't need to occur in the final pages. For this reason, some of the character decisions felt rushed and undeveloped at the end when it could have easily been addressed in the slower chapters earlier on.
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this book. I supposed I was just expecting more of an improvement on the issues that the first book had. Regardless, I'm super excited to dive into the next one
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, and Physical abuse
Minor: Trafficking
viktorijapana's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness